US court rules masking IP to visit a site could be a crime

[Hammi]

Hey

Im not quite sure how to interpret this one. It seems like there are a lot of details US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law | ZDNet .

Anyone have any idea how this would apply to scraping google and stuff like that?

 

[AdamC]

from the comments:

No, the judge only blocked a motion to have a case thrown out. Good heavens, this isn't the broad decision Steven makes it out to be.

A denied motion does NOT indicate any particular violation of law, it only blocks a motion in this case in this court.

Wait for the appeals that will surely come. Once it makes its way to the Supreme Court in about a decade, then you can call it law.

Steven is, once again, spreading FUD and trying to upset people over what amounts to nothing.

 

[qibrandmgmt]

Well that is going to make it hard for me to watch porn at work. Guess I will just have to login as one of my co-workers that I don't like before I do so.

 

[Hammi]

ah good. well i guess its still up in the air.

 

[Esquire]

AdamC got it right. Nothing to see here, move along...