Let’s rip the band-aid off.
The case became a media circus. Internet Archive v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Lawyers argued about the legal definition of "memory." The Archive's founder, a gentle librarian type with elbow patches, took the stand. He explained the Wayback Machine not as a time capsule, but as a witness . A neutral, automated witness to the digital lives of everything—websites, yes, but also the beings that animated them.
If you want, I can: