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nonethewiseryesterday at 10:06 PM1 replyview on HN

But didn’t Amazon cite laws that it broke (allegedly)? Not simply their ToS?


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Natsuyesterday at 10:15 PM

The CFAA makes it a federal offense to intentionally access a computer "without authorization" or "exceeding authorized access" so the sticky part is how far the site's ToS can go in defining what uses are authorized, lest it be a federal felony to use an ad blocker or whatever else might be forbidden in a ToS.