register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that website user who manifested assent with actual knowledge of terms was bound by them
• holding that monetary damages combined with loss of reputation, good will, and business opportunities amounted to irreparable harm
• holding that submission of multiple queries does not constitute unambiguous manifestation of assent where visitor would believe that the information is being “made freely and publicly available”
• holding that a company that scraped a competitor’s website to obtain data for marketing purposes likely committed trespass to chattels, because scraping could—although it did not yet—cause physical harm to the plaintiff’s computer servers
• holding that a company that scraped a competitor’s website to obtain data for marketing purposes likely committed trespass to chattels, because scraping could—although it did not yet—cause physical harm to the plaintiff’s computer servers
• noting that “[i]f an injury can be appropriately compensated by an award of money damages, then . . . no irreparable injury may be found”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).