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Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime | Electronic Front

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2018-01-11 09:04:40
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"MrPlow" writes:

Submitted via IRC for FatPhil

Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF’s advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle’s website in a manner it didn’t like. The court ruled back in 2012 that merely violating a website’s terms of use is...

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime [eff.org]

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