期刊名称：Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1901-8401
出版年度：2009
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：112-119
语种：English
出版社：International Association of IT Lawyers
摘要：Shopbots and Metabots are two Web-based intelligent agents that emerged since 1994 with the popularity of the Web. Both agent categories experienced impacts from lawsuits due to their innovative ways of information collection. Though the nature of their information collection methods was the same – which is extracting data from other websites - shopbots generally received favourable rulings while metabots received the opposite. As a result, shopbots become a dominant B2C ecommerce category nowadays while metabots-enabled ecommerce only exists in certain niche markets. This paper intends to explore the validity of the legal measures related and demonstrates that the legal force has a major impact on the development of Web technologies and the business models they later supported.
关键词：Intelligent Agent, Internet, Data Extraction, Shopbots, Metabots, Database right, Trespassing in cyberspace
