it's not IP, and it's certainly not their IP
> the TOS
oh no, the terms of service how dare people break those. you don't get to claim fair use while CFAAing everyone's actual IP then whine about the tos, and then when called out on spying on users point to it as if it being in the tos somehow justifies it
a lot of other malware has a tos too but we still call it for what it is
I'm not a lawyer so maybe that is the wrong legal term for a model/service like this. Would you mind telling me the word I should have used?
basically the point is that it's not protected because it doesn't fall under any classification of IP (it's not copyright or patent since it's mathematical outputs of a mechanical system, it's not trademark because obvious, and it's not a trade secret because it's not a secret)