A ruling by Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Robert Kelly Jr., if it stands, wards off a potential judgment of $3 million in damages a patients' advocacy company sought from Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey for allegedly fetching protected pages using an archive search tool. Kelly found the firm was viewing Web pages that were publicly accessible -- even if mistakenly so. "They did not 'pick the lock' and avoid or bypass the protective measure, because there was no lock to pick," Kelly wrote.
July 24, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A law firm did not violate copyright and computer anti-hacking laws when it used a Web archive search tool to recover old Web pages of its client’s adversary, says a federal judge.
Although the archived pages were supposed to be shielded from public view, the protections failed and lawyers at Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey in Valley Forge, Pa., did not hack their way in, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Robert Kelly Jr. ruled last week on summary judgment.
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