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I suspect that a legal approach might work here. Elsevier was being deliberately misleading and was deliberately making a computer do something that the owner o

I suspect that a legal approach might work here. Elsevier was being deliberately misleading and was deliberately making a computer do something that the owner of that computer had not authorized. There must be some computer crime statute they could be charged under.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
On a naive reading it breaches the Computer Misuse Act in the UK and the CFAA in the USA both of which have terms guarding against unauthorised access. You need more wrangling to read it in to a normal interpretation of the CFAA however. IANAL.