Healthcare Advocates sued both the law firm and the Internet Archive, claiming that archiving their old pages without permission was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act .
. The Internet Archive operated under the premise that if they owned a physical copy of a book, they could lend a digital surrogate to one person at a time. This mirrored the traditional library model but translated it into the bit-and-byte landscape. To the Archive, this was an act of preservation democratic access internet archive pirates 2005
When rights holders started noticing, the response was swift: Healthcare Advocates sued both the law firm and