: Healthcare Advocates claimed that the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine provided unauthorized access to their past web pages, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The Archive didn’t hide what it was doing. They created —a fully browser-playable emulator suite. One click, and you were playing Pitfall! or Donkey Kong from 1982, right in your Firefox browser. internet archive pirates 2005
Here is what the "pirates" of the Internet Archive were actually doing that year: : Healthcare Advocates claimed that the Internet Archive’s
To download a single three-hour Grateful Dead show in lossless FLAC format could take up to a gigabyte of data. In an era where many people still had limited broadband or—god forbid—dial-up, downloading a full show was a commitment. It was an investment. One click, and you were playing Pitfall
The Internet Archive was not a piracy site like The Pirate Bay (founded in 2003) or Suprnova. It had no skull-and-crossbones logo, no torrent tracker with seed/leech ratios. It was a registered library with a .org domain and a staff of earnest archivists. But in 2005, the Archive had relatively few automated copyright filters. It relied on user reports and volunteer moderators.