Scraping By – California Court Limits Use of Computer Crime Statute for High Volume Scraping
When you “access” a website, what are you authorized to do? And how would you know what is “authorized?” The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030 makes it a crime to “access” a “computer” “without authorization,” and further makes it a crime to “exceed authorization” to access a computer. Courts and computer…
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