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Actually, please do clarify. I am genuinely curious as to your reasoning. Consider also that there is no TOS violation as far as I can tell [1], and TOS viola

Actually, please do clarify. I am genuinely curious as to your reasoning. Consider also that there is no TOS violation as far as I can tell [1], and TOS violations do not a crime make [2]. Actually "hacking" something to get the service for free (sniffing a cookie and spoofing a MAC address, perhaps) would of course be another matter, but there's not even an access control being circumvented here. Edit: Let's say they were price discriminating by looking at the size of your browser window, assuming anything < 600x400 is mobile and charging less. Is it illegal to resize? [1] http://www.gogoair.com/gogo/cms/term.do http://www.gogoair.com/gogo/cms/term.do [2] http://www.volokh.com/2012/04/10/ninth-circuit-hands-down-en-banc-decision-in-united-states-v-nosal-adopting-narrow-interpretation-of-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act/ http://www.volokh.com/2012/04/10/ninth-circuit-hands-down-en...

tptacek 14y ago
You do not need to violate a black letter TOS agreement to commit fraud. You do need to intend to deceive to commit fraud, which moots your later example.
jahewson 14y ago
> Let's say they were price discriminating by looking at the size of your browser window, assuming anything < 600x400 is mobile and charging less. Is it illegal to resize? No. The browser window size, or user agent string are just proxies for the real question: is the device a laptop or a phone/tablet/etc? Your laptop remains a laptop whatever size the window is. This guy's laptop remained very much not a phone after altering his user agent. Edit: It's worth adding that desktop browsers do not use mobile device user agent strings during normal operation, but small windows are perfectly legitimate.