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CTOnews.com, Aug. 15 (Xinhua)-- Sony and other top music record companies have sued the Internet Archives (Internet Archive), saying its posting of thousands of old songs and recordings online amounts to "wholesale theft" of copyrighted music.

The Internet Archives posted a blog post today, saying that it is actively responding to the lawsuit and hopes to get the support of netizens to continue to promote the Great 78 project.

CTOnews.com Note: the Great 78 project, founded in 2006, is a collaboration of professional librarians, archivists and sound engineers to digitize 78RPM records preserved on shellac resin.

Shellac resin is an outdated and fragile medium, and the Internet Archives says this ancient recording technology will produce scratches and crackles, and modern reproduction techniques will be used to eliminate background noise in the process of digitization.

Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian at the Internet Archives, said:

Mainstream consumers listen to music and are used to streaming subscription platforms such as Spotify.

When consumers want to study the original version of the album, they will go to a library such as the Internet Archive. The two service groups are different and there will be no conflict.

The purpose of preserving recordings is for teaching and research, such as university professors such as Jason Luther of Rowan University, whose students use the Great 78 collection as a basis for research and writing podcasts for class assignments.

The number of visitors to these albums is very low, there may be only one person per album per month, and most of the albums are unattended.

While we actively respond to the lawsuit, we remain committed to our mission. We are very grateful to the sponsors and partners of the library, let us continue to "popularize all knowledge".

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"Sony and other music record companies sued the Internet Archives for $372 million in damages."

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