Every once in a while, it's not an entirely bad thing when lawyers get sued, just to keep them honest. The case of Healthcare Advocates, Inc. v. Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey is one lawsuit that I was glad to see dismissed on summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Users of the popular internet archive tool the Wayback Machine , will breathe a sigh of relief. The dispute began in early July 2005, when Healthcare Advocates filed suit against the law firm of Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey alleging, among other things, that the law firm violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, protections against circumvention of a technological measure. (Section 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides "no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.")

In the Healthcare Advocates case, Healthcare Advocates had provided the Wayback Machine with the robots.txt code, which allowed a site to opt out of inclusion in the Wayback Machine. The Healthcare Advocates information