American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked

Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by k2enemy on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:26AM (#7531187)

The warning message returned by the spider-trap says that it banned a particular IP address. How does this cut off the entire university? Is everyone behind a NAT?

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by TillE on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:39AM (#7531265)

For licensing purposes, they'd need to be able to associate ranges of IP addresses with a specific institution. So if they want to, it's easy to block that whole license for one violation.

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by DangerousPie on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:27AM (#7531195)

Yes, it is.

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