Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

The Internet Archive's Open Library project suffers a major blow as a US court rules in favor of publishers claiming copyright infringement.

As a result, more than 500,000 books will be made unavailable for digital lending. Internet Archive acts as a free digital library with stores of discontinued websites and old music.

The decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive resulted in the removal of 500,000 titles from the nonprofit digital library Internet Archive. The University of California Press, or UC Press, was ...

The Internet Archive suddenly has half a million fewer books to offer, this being the result of the book publishers winning a court battle against the free online library, ArsTechnica reported.