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Re: Interesting spamming tool: a robot to grab e-mail addresses

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  • From: Herman Van Uytven < >
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 98 08:59:15 +0200

>Btw, what's the legal status for these kind of searches? Could we get
>at the spammers this way, or would we only shoot ourselves in the foot?
>(I can imagine that Swedish law might consider a web page with email
>addresses to be a data base that needs a permit).

A few months ago we got an explanation about the new copyright
laws within the EC.  As far as I understand lawyers, it is not
allowed anymore to copy a database by doing e.g. wildcard searches
on databases on the web.  And web pages are indeed considered
as 'a database of documents'.

-Herman-
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>	Gunnar Lindberg




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