[bigmadshoe]

Presumably they were paid for finding the bug and inn accepting relinquished their right to blog about it.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

No, you relinquish the right when you agree to their TOS irrespective of if they pay you.

[amackera]

TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

I don’t want to pay for a lawyer to argue that for me. != law does not equate to ‘won’t come with a cost’.

I say this as someone threatened by a billion dollar company for this very thing.

[advisedwang]

Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.

[qmr]

Being a sellout is weak and sad.