As Sundog pointed out to me this morning, as long as the Archive is playing within the legal structure of the US legal system, it is *bound by* the legal structure of the US Legal system, and that structure is built by people who view the archive as an enemy.
The laws are written by companies who want to see all archives destroyed, who want to destroy the very concept of ownership, of memory, of cultural commons.
And we have to treat these entities as they treat us, as enemies.