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I have always wondered, is there legal precedent here? If someone were to ssh into your server without permission that's pretty obviously illegal access. But th
by ehnto 3y ago
I have always wondered, is there legal precedent here? If someone were to ssh into your server without permission that's pretty obviously illegal access. But the web is just another protocol on another port, what makes it different?
I certainly never said Google could crawl my website, and I would be surprised if the presence of a robots.txt file is written into law as a requirement to prove you didn't want them on your web properties.
I feel like this must have been hashed out in lawsuits already, probably against search crawlers.
- seydor 3y agoi m sure a lot of people lobbied for this to not be legislated
- __loam 3y agoAnd I'm pretty sure you'd be wrong. For example, uploading a movie you don't have a copyright to to YouTube is illegal. That movie night be public data, but you don't have the permission of the copyright holder to copy that data. Publicly accessible =/= You having the right to do whatever you want with something.
- sgift 3y agoI'm too tired for a thorough search, but here's an article which states that an appeals court decided it's legal: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ IANAL and so on.
- littlestymaar 3y agoA French famous white hacker got condemned in French for publishing confidential information found through a Google search. The key thing in the case was that he undeniably aware that this was just a file server misconfiguration and that he wasn't supposed to be able to access it. If you want more info about the case you should look for the "affaire Bluetouff*.