Re: PRE-DOWNLOAD SITES?

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:57:35AM -0500, Dave J Woolley wrote:
> The laws used to prosecute hacker refer to
> unauthorised access, not hacking. Most commercial
> sites only authorise access which is likely to
> result in revenue from them (i.e. your reading the
> adverts). The more technically savvy actually take
> active steps to block this sort of bulk loading and
> include explicit prohibitions in their terms of use.

Ah. That's why I used to think---and still think---that when
Big Business discovered the Web, the Internet is dead. Now
we have to get nervous about getting sued for doing normal
things that only Big Business regards are unauthorized.

Sorry, I'm getting off-topic.

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