Re:Robots.txt? (Score 2, Interesting)

"But on at least two dates in July 2003, the suit states, Web logs at Healthcare Advocates indicated that someone at Harding Earley, using the Wayback Machine, made hundreds of rapid-fire requests for the old versions of the Web site. In most cases, the robot.txt blocked the request. But in 92 instances, the suit states, it appears to have failed, allowing access to the archived pages." If would appear that they did kind of. That seems to be at the heart of the matter. The Internet Archive don't seem to be very surprised that it is happening. I don't think the company doing the suing have much of a case really, but IANAL.