> From: Ambrose Li [EDP] [SMTP:acli@mingpaoxpress.com]
>
> Why would this be considered hacking? Can you explain? This can be
> done with standard tools and the fact that a school (the teachers,
> not the students) had done it has been published in Linux Journal.
>
The laws used to prosecute hacker refer to
unauthorised access, not hacking. Most commercial
sites only authorise access which is likely to
result in revenue from them (i.e. your reading the
adverts). The more technically savvy actually take
active steps to block this sort of bulk loading and
include explicit prohibitions in their terms of use.
One site that makes this expllicit is IMDB
(http://www.imdb.com/terms/) but I think you can
assume that most commercial sites which rely on
advertising revenue think similarly, if they think
at all.
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