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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by jimktrains2 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:25AM (#15923514)
Sure, but if you're never told to leave the coffee shop or no action is taken to prevent you from entering again, say being told your banned, and you continue to walk in and use the coffee shop with no one saying anything, has your permission to enter really been revoked, even if the owner thinks, and only thinks, it has been?
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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by jasonlotito on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:34AM (#15923616)
FTA: "LinkedIn sent hiQ cease and desist letters warning that any future access of its website, even the public portions, were “without permission and without authorization” and thus violations of the CFAA."

They were formally told to leave the coffee shop and not return.

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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by jimktrains2 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:38AM (#15923674)
No, they were told to stop looking in the window. Can you ask someone not to look at the menu you posted in your sidewalk window? I don't think that'd hold up in court.
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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by jasonlotito on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:33PM (#15926719)
Now you are just changing your analogies because you didn't read the article.
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