Re: Legality of search bots

From: Jim Reardon <jim_at_amusive.com>
Date: Tue 30 May 2000 12:02:55 -0500

GERI KONSTANTIN <geri_at_virtualadv.com> WROTE:
> I believe that search bot utilities are legal.

Actually, there was a recent ruling that stated bots
are illegal --

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/26/0542208&mode=thread

A judge has said that Bidder's Edge could no longer use
its crawler to gather information from eBay. 'Even if
its searches use only a small amount of eBay's
computer system capacity, Bidder's Edge has nonetheless
deprived eBay of the ability to use that portion of
its personal property for its own purposes.'

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