How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well

Re:How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well by sbierwagen on Friday October 24, 2014 @10:44AM (#8503902)

  The first time I met him, he was in the middle of writing a 
  script to scrape Craigslist of all its free furniture 
  listings (which is illegal, btw).

It's a violation of the Craigslist TOS, a contract between two citizens, so it would be covered under civil law, not criminal. A creative prosecutors could try to spin it as a crime under the CFAA, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act) and there in fact have been CFAA prosecutions for scraping Craigslist listings, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_v._3Taps) but I doubt there's much a case here.

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Re:How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well by jElais on Friday October 24, 2014 @10:57AM (#8503972)

This would fall under US v Drew (http://www.dmlp.org/threats/united-states-v-drew). A case where someone violated the MySpace TOS and then was charged under the CFAA. The Judge ruled this was not a violation citing the void-for-vaguness doctrine and not wanting to give the power to right federal laws to websites.

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