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I remember seeing "Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it" on HN earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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I remember seeing "Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it" on HN earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30589489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30589489). Was this person lying?
- llamataboot 3y agoI often wondered what the full story behind that one has as OP never posted in it again and never heard a peep in any sort of media story
- dragonwriter 3y agoThere is no indication of what the charge was, and usually with hotlinking to an asset the legal issue is copyright infringement (which can be criminal as well as civil); that’s very different from suggesting that use of an API endpoint intended to be used by a public web frontend is a CFAA violation.