Oracle Sues SAP for Spidering Their Support Site

TodoInSATX writes "Oracle has filed a lawsuit against SAP. Among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy. From the actual complaint: 'SAP has stolen thousands of proprietary, copyrighted software products and other confidential materials that Oracle developed to service its own support customers. SAP gained repeated and unauthorized access, in many cases by use of pretextual customer log-in credentials, to Oracle's proprietary, password-protected customer support website.'"

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How to exclude Search Engine Spiders

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Tangential to the story, but if you want to exclude a search engine spider, you can use the robots exclusion protocol.

Appears it wouldn't have made too much of a difference here, but perhaps something useful to know.