In the active discussions collected from prominent Jihadi forums during the fourth week of July 2008, Internet Archive AKA archive.org once again far surpassed YouTube in terms of providing file sharing services to al-Qa`ida's operatives and supporters, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

What makes Internet Archive different from many other such service providers is this:

They know their services are being used by al-Qa`ida, and they are on record as refusing to cooperate with government efforts to conduct lawful investigations of this terrorist activity - activity which is vital to al-Qa`ida's ability to survive.

See the data regarding use of Internet Archive by al-Qa`ida for the third week of July, 2008, and for the third week of August, 2007.