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Ryanair wins case against Booking.com in US court ruling (www.rte.ie)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anybody beating booking.com is welcome. They're the worst partner to cooperate with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Fuck booking.com

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It says the companies, which use screen-scraping software to find and resell tickets, add additional charges and make it difficult for the airline to contact passengers.

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's website without authorisation "with an intent to defraud," the verdict said.

I really really hope that the "intent to defraud" is the big thing in this case and not "scraping", id hate for the precedent to be set that site scraping in general is something that should be illegal and give yet another tool to big companies to fuck people ovwr