BUSN150
Unit 2-IP
07/24/2011
Dear Lucy, I am excited to hear that you are starting your own website. I am glad you read the article I sent you and I will try to answer your questions. 1. Bidder’s Edge operated a site that posted information concerning auctions being conducted on numerous websites. Bidder’s Edge was able to use a software robot to “crawl” or scan Ebay’s site, without permission. A normal customer couldn’t access numerous sites and items as quickly as Bidder’s Edge. Bidder’s Edge was able to access Ebay 100,000 times a day. This mattered to Ebay because Bidder’s Edge’s activity could possibly slow or diminish the experience of the user due to a decrease in the capacity of Ebay’s system. If Ebay allowed Bidder’s Edge’s activity to continue unchecked, it would encourage similar sites like Bidders Edge to engage in similar searching of Ebay’s site. This in turn could harm Ebay’s goodwill with its customers or cause it to lose profits. 2. The definition of traditional consists of any act that denies the lawful owner full ownership rights to the property. This includes theft of the property, destruction of the property, or damage of the property. 3. The California definition of trespass of computer services differs slightly from the traditional definition. Under California Penal Code 502 the following actions are crimes: damaging, destroying, or changing data to defraud or deceive people; taking or copying data from a computer or computer network; using computer services without permission; changing, deleting, or destroying data on a computer or network; accessing or helping to access a computer or network without permission; introducing viruses into a computer or network; and using the internet domain name of someone else to send viruses that cause damage to a computer or network. The difference is the definitions of property;