Internet Archive Pirates 2005 -
The paradox of the 2005 Archive pirate was the
By 2010, the tide had turned. The launch of GOG.com (Good Old Games) in 2008 began to legitimize the abandonware market. Steam grew up. Suddenly, the "pirates" of 2005 looked less like criminals and more like prophets. internet archive pirates 2005
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. The paradox of the 2005 Archive pirate was