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Well, it's not the lawsuit that would trigger it, it's the outcome of it. So yes.
Yes on the other things, too. I can't imagine they would be opposed to working with alternatives to provide Wayback Machine fallbacks.
The Wayback Machine in particular is one of the greatest treasures of the Internet. An absolutely invaluable tool and so far entirely irreplaceable.
Honestly, it should be a public resource.
I mean, public libraries and archives being a mandatory requirement for copyright enforcement and publishing records is a thing, and the Wayback Machine proves it's technologically feasible to approximate it for the Internet, so...