#computerfraudandabuseact — Public Fediverse posts
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To put an ad-blocker in an app, you have to reverse-engineer it. To do that, you'll have to decrypt and decompile it. That step is a felony under #Section1201 of the #DMCA, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. Beyond that, ad-blocking an app would give rise to liability under the #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct (a law inspired by the movie *Wargames*!), under "tortious interference" claims, under trademark, copyright and patent.
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“For the past many months & even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time & energy toward looking for, #hacking into, #tampering with, #manipulating, copying, #disseminating, & generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or #stolen,” the #lawsuit charges. It alleges that the duo’s actions violated the federal #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct.
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OpenAI launches web crawler 'GPTBot' amid plans for next model: GPT-5 - ChatGPT users have the option to scrap the web crawler by adding ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/open-ai-launch-gptbot-web-crawler-amid-gpt5-trademark #u.s.patentandtrademarkoffice #computerfraudandabuseact #privateinformation #worldwideweb #webcrawler #aimodel #paywall #openai #gptbot #policy #gpt-4 #gpt-5