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So what's the maximum penalty for trespassing? The prosecution was looking for a disproportionate sentence About technical countermeasures to evade blocking..

So what's the maximum penalty for trespassing? The prosecution was looking for a disproportionate sentence About technical countermeasures to evade blocking.. you realize that everybody that does scraping at a large scale employs those, right? Including Meta Specially nowadays where large swaths of the web is behind captchas

qingcharles 2mo ago
If it was charged as trespassing, not something higher like burglary, then the level of his trespass was probably the lowest misdemeanor. Usually trespass is a sliding scale starting with a warning not to return. Being that it was on a campus, they can sometimes use that as an aggravating factor. I remember one case where a homeless person had a key for a vending machine and took out $30 in quarters, but since the land the vending machine was on was owned by a university he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. One of the few cases that got reversed for a constitutionally exceptional sentence.
- 9x39 2mo ago
  Don't think they did trespassing: wire fraud computer fraud unlawfully obtaining info from a protected computer recklessly damaging a protected computer aiding and abetting criminal forfeiture https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041804/https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/09/swartzsuperseding.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041804/https://www.wired...