Ebay vs Bidder's Edge
Title: Ebay vs Bidder's Edge
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 457 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ebay vs Bidder's Edge
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 457 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
eBay sought to prevent Bidder's Edge from crawling its site, claiming that Bidder's Edge was going onto its site 100,000 times a day, thereby placing a burden on its systems. Rather than claim intellectual property infringement, eBay alleged that by searching items listed for sale Bidder's Edge was trespassing on its site. Bidder's Edge was not trespassing in the sense of causing damage just by their undesired presence, they were actually doing damage by accessing eBay
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References
BotSpot: Department Of Justice Probes EBay Bot Blocking. (February 4, 2000) Retrieved from the World Wide Web February 23, 2005 at http://www.botspot.com/news/000204ebay.html
Cheeseman, Henry R. (2000) Contemporary Business & E-Commerce Law. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice Hall.
CNet: Judge bars Bidder's Edge Web crawler on eBay. (September 21, 2000) Retrieved from the World Wide Web on February 23, 2005 at http://news.com.com/Judge+bars+Bidder's+Edge+Web+crawler+on+eBay/2100-1017_3-241083.html