On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, B Leong wrote:
> > I know about ticketmaster, ebay and register.com being in the courts > over bots crawling on their site. Any others that people know about? http://www.pcblawfirm.com/news/ Out of interest: www.ebay.com/robots.txt # go away User-agent: * Disallow: / www.ticketmaster.com/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / #If you have any questions or comments about this policy, or #wish to obtain information on how to obtain event information, please contact #[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ticketmaster.ca/robots.txt www.ticketmaster.com.mx/robots.txt www.ticketmaster.ie/robots.txt www.ticketmaster.co.uk/robots.txt www.billettservice.no/robots.txt 404 www.ticketmaster7.com/robots.txt (Australia) User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi Disallow: /tmoplus Disallow: /survey Disallow: /info Disallow: /express www.register.com/robots.txt 404 www.register.com/ <title>Register.com - Domain Name Registration Services</title> <META NAME="robots" content="index"> www.pollstar.com/robots.txt User-Agent: * Disallow: /tour/ from the PDF: Pollstar asserts that defendant has routinely crawled plaintiff's site to glean information regarding concert listings and then posted that information to defendant's own site. Pollstar "caught" defendant by posting concocted false information on Pollstar's site The holder of the Register.com domain name sued VERIO for breach of contract, trespass to chattels, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and violation of the Lanham Act as a result of VERIO's use of a robot to collect data from Register.com's WHOIS database and certain questionable marketing practices utilized by VERIO in promoting its Internet services. Explorica: Plaintiff tour company sued a competitor under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), the Copyright Act and RICO as a result of such competitor's use of a "scraper" program to collect pricing information from Plaintiff's site so that the competitor could undercut Plaintiff's prices on a regular basis. Ticketmaster Plaintiff sued defendant, a ticket information aggregation site, for linking to various pages deep within Plaintiff's Web site. E-Bay Defendant would regularly spider plaintiff's site (along with many other auction sites) to extract information about items being auctioned and related prices, organize that information and post it on defendant's site. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
