Judicial orders are already being used to stop autonomous browser agents from scraping or transacting on commercial sites. That creates a legal lever platforms and incumbents can use to control agent behavior, even before comprehensive regulation is written.
— This matters because early court rulings will set technical and business constraints on agent design, platform access rules, and who bears liability for autonomous transactions.
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2026.03.10
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U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney’s temporary injunction against Perplexity’s Comet for accessing Amazon 'without authorization', and Amazon’s claim it spent over $5,000 and had to alter ad-impression systems to filter automated traffic.
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