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Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime

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 not a...
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Jan 10, 2018Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime by uptown689161

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