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TOS are pretty meaningless in cases like this. It amounts to getting rejected as a customer and your account canceled.

I think ToS violations can also run afoul of CFAA.

Those are pretty old cases that I think the courts have moved away from and even in those cases it was a TOS violation and explicit c&d that the company ignored.

I don't think they can any longer, I think there is case law on this.

Illinois law makes it a misdemeanor to violate web site ToS, though. And felony for the second time IIRC. Other states probably also.

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