By @law360
Publication Date: 2026-04-29 21:11:00
( April 29, 2026, 21:11 GMT | Official Statement) — MLex Summary: The Software & Information Industry Association told a US appeals court that the technology of agentic artificial intelligence doesn’t change the fact that when a party is explicitly not authorized to access a secure computer system and continues to do so anyway, it has broken the law. The association urged the court to affirm an injunction against Perplexity’s access of Amazon’s website through its Comet AI, saying that if Perplexity succeeds, any agent operator would be able to exploit any platform’s authenticated systems without accountability to the platform. “Once a platform expressly revokes authorization to access a password-protected system, continued knowing access by an intermediary — regardless of user consent or asserted purpose — constitutes access ‘without authorization’,” it argued. See attached file. …
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