Internet Archive - Pirates 2005

“If a book is out of print and not available as an ebook, is it really ‘published’? If a piece of software requires a floppy disk and a 1987 Macintosh to run, who are we harming by sharing it?”

In July 2005, the Internet Archive was sued by Healthcare Advocates, a company that alleged the Archive had illegally bypassed their "robots.txt" protocol to cache old versions of their website. internet archive pirates 2005

To understand the cultural explosion of the Internet Archive in 2005, you have to understand the crisis that defined it. “If a book is out of print and

The pirates had a surprisingly coherent philosophy. On the Internet Archive’s now-defunct forums, they argued: internet archive pirates 2005