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The CFAA, enacted in 1986, serves as a legal framework addressing unauthorized access to computer systems. A landmark case in 2015 involved a company called 3Taps, which scraped Craigslist’s data for use on PadMapper. Despite being served cease-and-desist orders, they continued their activities, eventually sued and ordered to pay $1 million in damages. This ruling emphasized the need for scrapers to heed warnings from site owners.