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>Asking for a page over HTTP isn't hacking; again, this is entirely off-topic.

It can be. See e.g. https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-auernheimer, which as far as I can tell involved only http/s requests.

>Nothing has been agreed to. An HTTP request sends a GET, and the server volunteered to send a page of content as their reply. They could have sent an offer of a contract, or some sort of "access denied" message, or any other response.

Again, as the example above shows, this logic has not been accepted by the courts.

Re law360: I followed a link from Google and didn't realize that it was regwalled.




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