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The court just ruled that scraping on its own isn't a violation of the CFAA. Meaning it doesn't count as the crime of "accessing a protected computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access and obtaining information".

However presumably all the other provisions of the CFAA still apply, so if your scraping damages the functioning of a internet service then you still would have committed the crime of "Damaging a protected computer by intentional access". Negligently damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1 year in prison on the first offence. Recklessly damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1-5 years on the first offense. And intentionally damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1-10 years for the first offense. These penalties can go up to 20 years for repeated offenses.




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