Universal Access to All Knowledge

like the idea that there's a God somewhere looking after us. But sometimes I think it's a wrathful God. Who are the right gods? Janus sounds nice, but the idea of Sisyphus having to roll a rock continuously up a hill strikes me as more appropriate. When tending files on spinning magnetic storage systems and trying to preserve them for centuries, I think of Damocles' sword hanging over us. One major slip and it could be a very, very bad day at the Archive. I thought I'd go over some of the Internet Archive's experience working with digital materials in large numbers from an archival point of view. What are the technological issues? What are the access and use issues? What are the institutional problems and issues? What are the copyright issues? How should this all work?