In a recent legal development, a Delaware federal jury has ruled that online travel booking company Booking.com must pay $5,000 to Ryanair. The Irish discount airline successfully argued that Booking.com’s use of screen scraping software breached computer fraud laws, equating the activity to “internet piracy.” The jury’s decision marks a significant point in the ongoing debate over data scraping practices and their legality under computer fraud statutes. More details can be found here.