Email to my friend to help her establish a legal Internet site Dear friend:

I understand that you want to set up a legal internet site, and I think your intentions are honorable. Setting up such a site can be a challenge not only in the technical sense of the word, but also in the legal sense since there are some legal strictures that must be met.

As see the example of the E-Bay / Bidder's Edge case, for instance, where Bidder's Edge was sued by E-Bay for having trespassed private property, Internet sites although apparently public can, from a certain aspect, be viewed as private too. Bidder's Edge ended up having to pay for its offense. It would certainly be beneficial, therefore, for us to examine relevant minutiae of its case and see how we can avoid similar problems.

Firstly: what did Bidder's Edge do that was different than eBay's normal customers? And Why does it...

The objective, namely the business of Bidder's Edge, was to help consumers comparison-shop for the lowest price on auction web sites by posting auction items on its web site. E-Bay is a major industry in this regards -- if not the most dominant industry in this field, and, therefore, Bidder's Edge was eager to extend its automated searches to eBay. E-Bay was reluctant since automated searches conducted by Bidder's Edge on its site would result in reduced system performance, system unavailability, and possible data loss.
What is the definition of traditional trespass to personal property?

Most law dictionaries define trespass as related to property along the terms of "committing…