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The first time I met him, he was in the middle of writing a script to scrape Craigslist of all its free furniture listings (which is illegal, btw). It's
by sbierwagen 12y ago
The first time I met him, he was in the middle of writing a
script to scrape Craigslist of all its free furniture
listings (which is illegal, btw).
It's a violation of the Craigslist TOS, a contract between two citizens, so it would be covered under civil law, not criminal. A creative prosecutors could try to spin it as a crime under the CFAA, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act) and there in fact have been CFAA prosecutions for scraping Craigslist listings, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_v._3Taps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_v._3Taps) but I doubt there's much a case here.
- jElais 12y agoThis would fall under US v Drew (http://www.dmlp.org/threats/united-states-v-drew http://www.dmlp.org/threats/united-states-v-drew). A case where someone violated the MySpace TOS and then was charged under the CFAA. The Judge ruled this was not a violation citing the void-for-vaguness doctrine and not wanting to give the power to right federal laws to websites.