Ryanair Wins Verdict in Scraping Case Against Booking.com (2)

Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by scraping Ryanair DAC’s website to find airline tickets to sell to its customers, a unanimous federal jury in Delaware said.

European airline Ryanair said that Booking Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries employed a scraping process in which they used “automated systems or software that enables them to enter into and use the Ryanair Website, its content, and/or underlying databases for the purposes of searching and booking Ryanair flights that are ultimately sold” to Booking.com customers, according to the amended complaint.

Ryanair said that Booking.com knowingly and intentionally violated the CFAA ...