alt Hacker NewsI wonder if circumvention is legal. It's so odd. In the US it seems you can just do this whereas if I'd start something like this in the EU, I don't think I could.
I wonder if circumvention is legal. It's so odd. In the US it seems you can just do this whereas if I'd start something like this in the EU, I don't think I could.
In Italy it’s a crime punishable up to 12 years to access any protected computer system without authorization, especially if it causes a DoS to the owner
Consider the case of selfhosting a web service on a low performance server and the abusive crawling goes on loop fetching data (which was happening when I was self hosting gitlab!)
https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/libro-secondo/titolo-x...