{"id":20216,"date":"2018-01-17T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2018-01-17T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:10:08","slug":"violating-a-websites-terms-of-service-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/violating-a-websites-terms-of-service-is-not-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Violating a Website&rsquo;s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/01\/ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime\">Jamie Williams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/01\/ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime\">\n<p>Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/oracle-v-rimini-eff-amicus-brief\">advice<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/oracle-v-rimini-ninth-circuit-opinion\">rejected<\/a> an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle&rsquo;s website in a manner it didn&rsquo;t like. The court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/ninth-circuit-en-banc-opinion\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;back in 2012 that merely violating a website&rsquo;s terms of use is not a crime under the federal computer crime statute, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ilt.eff.org\/index.php\/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_%28CFAA%29\">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act<\/a>. But some companies, like Oracle, turned to state computer crime statutes&mdash;in this case, California and Nevada&mdash;to enforce their computer use preferences.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><i>Oracle v. Rimini<\/i> involves Oracle&rsquo;s terms of use prohibition on the use of automated methods to download support materials from the company&rsquo;s website. Rimini, which provides Oracle clients with software support that competes with Oracle&rsquo;s own services, violated that provision by using automated scripts instead of downloading each file individually. Oracle sent Rimini a cease and desist letter demanding that it stop using automated scripts, but Oracle didn&rsquo;t rescind Rimini&rsquo;s authorization to access the files outright. Rimini still had authorization from Oracle to access the files, but Oracle wanted them to access them manually&mdash;which would have seriously slowed down Rimini&rsquo;s ability to service customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Williams: Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF&rsquo;s advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle&rsquo;s website in a manner it didn&rsquo;t like. The court ruled&nbsp;back in 2012 that merely violating a website&rsquo;s terms of use is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41,209,736,96],"class_list":["post-20216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-oracle","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}