Robots协议的法律效力探析——兼评百度诉360一案

Legal Effect of Protocol——Review on the Case of Baidu Suing 360

自从奇虎360公司进军搜索引擎行业以来,其与百度公司之间的摩擦不断升级。百度在自己旗下的网站设置robots协议白名单,将360搜索引擎排除在外,而360则公然绕过robots协议,强行抓取百度网站页面。由于法律无明文规定,关于robots协议的法律效力值得探讨,但不管从哪个角度来分析,恶意越过robots协议强行抓取网页或窥探隐私都应受到法律制裁,其具体是违反著作权法还是构成不正当竞争行为应视具体情况加以分析与选择。

Since 360. Inc has gone into searching industry,the friction between 360 and Baidu. Inc is escalating. Baidu sets robots. txt white list on its websites to rules 360 out,while 360 openly bypasses robots. txt and forcibly grabs web pages of Baidu.As there is still not an explicit legal item on it,it is worthwhile to study the legal effect of robots protocol. Anyway,the acts of forcibly bypassing the robots. txt to grab web pages with bad will or pry into others＇ privacy should get legal sanction. Whether this behavior should be taken as infringement of copyright or unfair competition depends on the specific situation.