You are bound by contracts after you sign them, even if you don't read them. If you sent your 10 year-old child to run your store, knowing the child would probably sign a number of contracts during the day, you would be bound to those contracts even though you didn't read them and the child is too young to legally contract. How is a harvester different?

Honeypot owners should be able to impose conditions on users' access to the honeypot -- that's why responsible spiders recognize and follow robots.txt. People operate spider/harvesters at their own legal risk. This technique just capitalizes on that.

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