Do they still archival zips of there collection like Wiki did?

Sad, indeed.

I don't understand how other countries can't challenge something like this, since it affects every internet user globally, not just Americans

Yeah I get that
But Internet laws should be global, not national
It's not like we trade data between countries as other resources are

Sure we do. WTO | Understanding the WTO - Intellectual property: protection and enforcement

And how could you forget how badly the US wanted the TPP to go through so we could lockdown IP laws in asia? Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Everybody: please save all my erudite comments on SE.

This is depressing.
it is just like all the games and software that have been bought
(or the sub-companies that made them) by investor firms so that
consortiums of dentists can sit on an old software titles so they can't be re-released.
This is a big problem with licences, as companies die or get folded into others and dissolved.
Modern companies are like wolverines. They would rather own something and either hoard or spoil it rather than preserve.