-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leon Strong wrote:
One would argue that by sticking something online / making something available to the public, you implicitly give permission to all and sundry to access the information.
That's what the lawyers would say, the judge would agree, and the case would be thrown out. A website is an implicit invitation to view. If a person with a browser and no login credentials can access the content, you've made it available to the world. People suggesting that maybe NLNZ has breached the Crimes Act by crawling while ignoring robots.txt (as opposed to finding ways around authorisation restrictions) have a *VERY* tenuous grip on reality. - -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJBig2TdEtTmUCdpwRArrGAKCHJCSSmCAAPmPKp6+sv39ru+G5yACcDxw8 NtO4Acldt1K9QH5uZGvZe8g= =gvec -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----