alt Hacker NewsViolating ToS isn't illegal in most cases. Companies just put scary looking clauses in their ToS to discourage you from doing things they don't like.
Violating ToS isn't illegal in most cases. Companies just put scary looking clauses in their ToS to discourage you from doing things they don't like.
That's not true of course. There are hundreds of such cases with varying outcomes [0][1][2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge