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A TOS violation is an unauthorised access which is a federal crime. See, for example, the case of Aaron Swartz. Using the DMCA seems preferable. Changing these
by buckminster 7y ago
A TOS violation is an unauthorised access which is a federal crime. See, for example, the case of Aaron Swartz. Using the DMCA seems preferable. Changing these laws would be better still.
- capableweb 7y agoSo if I put "If you visit the website, you owe me 5 USD" in my Terms of Service, I can have them arrested? Something feels very fishy here, has to be more conditions than just "TOS violation === federal crime"
- buckminster 7y agoThe difference is in what you can convince an investigator, a prosecutor and a jury to take seriously.
- Keverw 7y agoI know it's been interpreted as that under the CFAA, but I know there was a recent case regrading scraping so sounds like that that interpretation isn't true anymore. There was an debate between lawyers saying that sharing passwords for streaming services like Netflix, HULU, Spotify, etc with family could be seen as a federal crime too in theory if companies wanted to push it under that law but no actual lawsuits as far as I know.