not sure if the same jurisdictions that are under the Computer Fraud Act have determined there is such a thing as "illegal scraping".

Does the Computer Fraud Act cover segfaulting an .exe file? I don't know, I don't live in the country that has it.

If The Computer Fraud act says it is ok to segfault an .exe which I highly doubt, is the organization doing this segfaulting as part of their protection against this supposed "illegal scraping" actually checking that the machines that they are segfaulting are all in jurisdictions that are under the Computer Fraud Act?

What happens if they segfault outside those jurisdictions and there are other laws that pertain there? I'm guessing it might happen they screwed then. Should have thought about that, being so clever.

Hey I get it, I am totally the kind of guy who might decide to segfault someone costing me a lot of money by crawling my site and ignoring my robots.txt. I'm vengeful like that. But I would accept hey what I am doing is probably illegal somewhere, too bad, I definitely wouldn't be going around arguing it was totally legal, and I would also be open to the possibility hey, this fight I'm jumping into might have some collateral damages - sucks to be them.

Everybody else here seems to be all righteous about how they can destroy people's shit in retaliation, and the people whose computers they are destroying might not even know they got a beef with you.

on edit: obviously once it got to courts or the media I would argue it was totally legal, ethical and the right thing to do to prevent these people from being able to attack other sites with their "illegal scraping" behavior. Because I don't win the fight if I get punished for winning. I'm just talking about keeping a clear view of what one is actually doing in the process of winning the fight.