it's not legally binding and not the law. The TOS can forbid all they want. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-com

it's not legally binding and not the law. The TOS can forbid all they want. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-computer-crime https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub... suggests there is little to no recourse for IMDB and the likes. Craigslist was able to win their case against 3taps, arguing the scraping was putting a load on their servers (typical Craig Newman bullshit) and that they continued scraping even after the IP ban and that is a computer frauds act or something like that which is draconian response likes of which that guy who killed himself because he got caught for scraping academic journals.