The boards were costly to run due to the system's age and dated design, which did not make business sense.[47] The decision to remove the message boards was met with outspoken backlash from some of its users, and sparked an online petition garnering over 8,000 signatures.[48] In the days leading up to February 20, 2017, both Archive.org[49] and MovieChat.org[50] preserved the entire contents of the IMDb message boards using web scraping. Archive.org and MovieChat.org have published IMDb message board archives, which is legal under the fair use doctrine, because it has no effect on IMDb's potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.[51][52]