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TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.





I don’t want to pay for a lawyer to argue that for me. != law does not equate to ‘won’t come with a cost’.

I say this as someone threatened by a billion dollar company for this very thing.


Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.



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