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amackerayesterday at 10:10 PM1 replyview on HN

TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.


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advisedwangyesterday at 10:34 PM

Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.