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Under what law? It's interesting because these are sites that host content for the purpose of providing it to anonymous network users. ebay won a case against a
by EgregiousCube 1y ago
Under what law? It's interesting because these are sites that host content for the purpose of providing it to anonymous network users. ebay won a case against a scraper back in 2000 by claiming that the server load was harming them, but that reasoning was later overturned because it's difficult to say that server load is actual harm. ebay was in the same condition before and after a scrape.
Maybe some civil lawsuit about terms of service? You'd have to prove that the scraper agreed to the terms of service. Perhaps in the future all CAPTCHAs come with a TOS click-through agreement? Or perhaps every free site will have a login wall?
- buttercraft 1y agoIf you put measures in place to prevent someone from accessing a computer, and they circumvent those measures, is that not a criminal offense in some jurisdictions?
- integralid 1y agoOn the other hand, DDoS attacks are pretty clearly on the illegal side. I wonder how this would play out in practice.
- Nextgrid 1y agoIntention plays a part. (D)DoS is intentionally done to make a website unavailable to legitimate users. Scraping may do this as a side-effect (if you are incompetent and/or use the "cloud"), but isn't the intention.