United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:11AM from the and-for-making-it-harder-to-squeeze-blood-from-a-stone dept.

linuxwrangler writes: Aktarer Zaman, a young computer scientist, started a "side project" called Skiplagged to compile a relatively well-known method of finding inexpensive airfares. "The idea is that you buy an airline ticket that has a layover at your actual destination. Say you want to fly from New York to San Francisco — you actually book a flight from New York to Lake Tahoe with a layover in San Francisco and get off there, without bothering to take the last leg of the flight." But organizing fully public information into a user-friendly form has gotten him sued by United and Orbitz. They accuse his not-for-profit site of "unfair competition" and of promoting "strictly prohibited" travel.

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Re: tfa says carry-on, one-way by operagost · 2014-12-30 02:55 · Score: 4, Funny

It would be great if the TSA was actually smart enough to flag items like that, and at least automatically pull those people aside for physical inspection of their carry-on. But they'd rather cavity-search babies and people in vegetative states.

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Re:What he's doing is Not illegal by wonkey_monkey · 2014-12-30 03:29 · Score: 3, Funny

One swims and one lives on land. Duh.

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