[vmateixeira]

Genuine question, is this not considered a DoS attack?

Let's imagine I have my online stock linked to limited physical items/assets, ex tickets for a show, which will get reserved for a period of time. This will be preventing genuine clients from buying them.

[Mizza]

I'm thinking - if I forbid this in my site's Terms of Service, will DoJ go after Google for CFAA violations like they did to Aaron?

[vmateixeira]

Yeah.. probably depend$ on how loud you can make yourself heard..

RIP Aaron

[zelly]

You can always update your robots.txt or block the Googlebot UA. (lol)

[nxpnsv]

Possibly it is lower traffic than a full on dos?

[vmateixeira]

Yes, in regards to traffic. But it's still denying me from providing a service to real customers.