<story><title>Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling</title><url>https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0719/1460807-ryanair-wins-us-court-case-against-bookingcom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>&amp;gt; A jury in the District Court of Delaware unanimously found that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse act and that it had induced a third party to access parts of Ryanair&amp;#x27;s website without authorisation &amp;quot;with an intent to defraud,&amp;quot; the verdict said&lt;p&gt;I imagine this is limited to a scenario where you: 1. Act as a middle-man for the transaction (as this lawsuit was about resale), 2. Interfere with pricing or other service aspects, 3. Add your own profit. I don&amp;#x27;t think this sets any precedent against scraping on its own.&lt;p&gt;(The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>We used to regulate air travel. It was a lot more expensive then.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling</title><url>https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0719/1460807-ryanair-wins-us-court-case-against-bookingcom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>&amp;gt; A jury in the District Court of Delaware unanimously found that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse act and that it had induced a third party to access parts of Ryanair&amp;#x27;s website without authorisation &amp;quot;with an intent to defraud,&amp;quot; the verdict said&lt;p&gt;I imagine this is limited to a scenario where you: 1. Act as a middle-man for the transaction (as this lawsuit was about resale), 2. Interfere with pricing or other service aspects, 3. Add your own profit. I don&amp;#x27;t think this sets any precedent against scraping on its own.&lt;p&gt;(The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; (The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)&lt;p&gt;How difficult would it be to destroy Booking.com&amp;#x27;s entire businessmodel or at least their grip on the market?</text></comment>