22.08.2013 - 08:06 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Court Rules Accessing a Public Website Isn‘t A Crime, But Hiding Your IP Address Could Be

In the ongoing legal battle between craigslist and 3taps, a new court opinion makes clear that people are „authorized“ under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to access a public website. But what the court gave with one hand it took with the other, as it also ruled that sending a cease-and-desist letter and blocking an IP address is enough to „revoke“ this authorization.