RE: PRE-DOWNLOAD SITES?

> From: Ambrose Li [EDP] [SMTP:acli@mingpaoxpress.com]
>
> Why would this be considered hacking? Can you explain? This can be
> done with standard tools and the fact that a school (the teachers,
> not the students) had done it has been published in Linux Journal.
>
        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.

        One site that makes this expllicit is IMDB
        (http://www.imdb.com/terms/) but I think you can
        assume that most commercial sites which rely on
        advertising revenue think similarly, if they think
        at all.
Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 09:10:24 MST