America's main anti-hacking law turned 40 and got its first federal appellate test against an AI shopping agent. The injunction did not survive: the court held the user accesses Amazon, not Perplexity, because the agent takes pictures of the customer's own screen and never opens a connection to Amazon's servers.
We cover why architecture is now a legal fact rather than a latency decision, the two doors into every storefront, and the liability gap the ruling widened — consumer dispute rights survive delegation to an agent, but the merchant's evidence trail doesn't exist yet.
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