hijacking another's webpage for competing service is bad

Spy Dialer, Inc. v. Reya LLC, 2019 WL 1873296, No. ED CV 18-1178 FMO (SHKx) (C.D. Cal Mar. 18, 2019)The parties compete in the market for reverse phone lookups.  When a user accessed plaintiff’s Spydialer.com, malicious computer code allegedly inserted through ads placed by Reya would cause the user’s browser to automatically scroll down to the bottom of the webpage, where defendant’s ad was located. The user’s cursor would then be placed in a search box located within the ad, instead of in the search box for the Spy Dialer website. The ad’s search box was designed to look similar to Spy Dialer’s search box. The malicious code allegedly prevented users from scrolling back up the page to Spy Dialer’s search box. Users who typed a phone number into the advertisement’s search box were redirected to defendant’s website. When Spy Dialer reached out to defendant, a manager claimed that the malicious code was the result of a…

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