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This clause establishes a contractual requirement that restricts certain categories of content and service offerings on the AWS platform, functioning as a use limitation tied to intellectual property compliance obligations.
Users are prohibited from hosting, developing, or offering piracy tools or services that bypass technical protections on the platform. Violation of this restriction constitutes a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy and subjects the user's account to enforcement action.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"Intellectual Property Infringement. Infringing or misappropriating intellectual property, including by offering piracy tools (e.g., software or services that circumvent technical protection measures used to protect digital content).— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This clause establishes a contractual requirement that restricts certain categories of content and service offerings on the AWS platform, functioning as a use limitation tied to intellectual property compliance obligations.
Users are prohibited from hosting, developing, or offering piracy tools or services that bypass technical protections on the platform. Violation of this restriction constitutes a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy and subjects the user's account to enforcement action.
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