So, since you're saying public good requires companies to access their competitors' internal data, should the government require of Uber to release, e.g. their mail archive ? Their business deals ? Any of the data they have ? This would be a move giving market equality. Merely allowing Uber to penetrate their competitors' information system is allowing industrial spying, not making data available for public use.

Should we accept that, e.g. Lyft send some of their employees to be recruited at Uber and then leak the info back to Uber ? That's, afaik, illegal.

You must realize that, while you criticize CFAA for promoting big business, a small company will never have decent means to resist an unrestricted corporate warfare.

By creating a clear delimitation between what in your information system is public, and what is private, CFAA allows smaller companies to protect information critical to their business (not IP, private info), so that they don't have to invest in oversized devensive methods.

> the fact is that Lyft was giving this away.

Lyft was giving this away to business partners with whom they had contractual relations. Uber impersonated contractors, and violated these contractual relations.