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Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules (eff.org)

Posted by BeauHD on from the better-luck-next-time dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: 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 crime under the federal computer crime statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But some companies, like Oracle, turned to state computer crime statutes -- in this case, California and Nevada -- to enforce their computer use preferences. This decision shores up the good precedent from 2012 and makes clear -- if it wasn't clear already -- that violating a corporate computer use policy is not a crime.

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  2. Oracle is such a piece of shit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only IBM could suck more.

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