Fundamentals of Business Law

Fundamentals of Business Law

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Good you went through the article I sent you . Was expecting questions from you . Be careful if you want to succeed in linking your website to other websites and WebPages . You already know this by now

eBay 's normal customers check the prices of the products they want to buy and then make their purchases online . Whereas Bidder 's Edge dealt in a business of linking many websites like eBay and giving its customers an array of choice of the website from

where buying a product would be more profitable . The normal customers of eBay were to it in an authorized manner but Bidder 's Edge took the unauthorized path . This was the major difference in the conduct of eBay 's normal customer and Bidder 's Edge Inc . As you read in the article , it had negotiated to get linked to eBay 's website . Had eBay agreed for this then Bidder 's Edge would also have been one of the regular customers of eBay . In spite of disapproval of any such partnership , Bidder 's edge indulged in using the eBay 's website and that too using a proxy server , which was a highly illegal activity . This activity of Bidder 's Edge was different from the activities of eBay 's normal customers . Naturally it mattered to eBay a lot as Bidder 's Edge intentionally and in an unauthorized way (by using a proxy server ) used its services . eBay feared that if Bidder 's edge would have continued in this manner then it would have caused a great deal of disruption to eBay 's normal functioning . This meant a loss in the business and inconvenience to the authorized users which is an unwanted situation for any leading website

The following is the definition of traditional trespass to personal property given in my text : A trot that occurs whenever one person injures another person 's personal property or interferes with that person 's enjoyment of his or her personal property (p .78

Now to spot the differences between the definition given in the text and the California definition of trespass have a look at the California definition

In to prevail in a suit for trespass based on accessing a computer system , the injured party must show the defendant intentionally and without authorization interfered with the plaintiff 's possessory interest in the computer system , and that the defendant 's unauthorized use approximately resulted in damage to plaintiff

The first difference is that the California definition is more elaborate and helps understand the issue in question in a better way . The second difference is that the definition in my text mentions interference with enjoyment of someone 's personal property , which is not clear whether the interference that is being talked about is intentional or unintentional But the California definition mentions the term `intentional , which is helpful in understanding the level of offence . The third difference is in the word `unauthorized . This again helps in...