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Of course that's bad, but the Internet Archive is going to die in the next couple of years anyway. There is nothing that could happen, that could damage it more, than their own actions in the past. They have done everything in order to shoot themselves maximally in the foot (complete centralization, having all parts of the project under one organization, including those where they deliberately and needlessly infrighted copyright under the same banner as those less legally vulnerable, but much more important projects such as the Wayback-Machine). By all means, they are screwed beyond help and will probably be kill some time soon and this data breach is just one more thing, that adds salt to the wound.
I've been downloading a lot of websites from the Wayback-Machine manually (there are some scripts to do that) and a lot of music, books and games too. On one hand, one cannot archive everything that could be possibly interesting in the future, because who knows what could be relevant and what is junk, but on the other hand, I think it will lead to web archiving becoming more decentralized, which is a good thing. Just imagine the fact, that a single website archives literally all of the web. There are a few other archival sites, but they don't reach as far in the past, nor do they have a crawler, that indexes everything humanly possible and have other major flaws.
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