They are being gamed by their own game. Nobody took their content - they submitted it to search engines and are upset the search engine provides a cached copy.
If they don't like it they can not submit to search engines.
> Just because something's available on request from a server does not mean it's up for grabs.
When you give the content out for free to the indexer, you have given a copy to the world. Google search is not your advertising machine - you can pay for that priviledge if you would care for it.
According to the law, someone did.
Just because something's available on request from a server does not mean it's up for grabs.