Re:This case should last all of 30 seconds. (Score 1)

If you buy a book, you can enjoy the book as long as you like, and you can show it to other people. If the author wants to retract the book, that is impossible. You have actually paid for the privilige to have the book in your home, and to be able to use it in any way you like, except for republishing it.

When an author publishes on the Internet, it is similar to publishing in a book that is distributed to the whole world and nobody has to pay for. However, redistribution rights are not granted. And it seems to me that redistribution is exactly what the Internet Archive is doing.

How is their redistribution different than me borrowing your old out of print edition of the book? In this case the law firm could easily have tracked down an owner of the old out of print book and used it for evidence.