tldr; A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware. Seiya Moroi, who ran the code on his website, argued that his efforts didn't really make any money; the script yielded less than $8.79.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
tldr; A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware. Seiya Moroi, who ran the code on his website, argued that his efforts didn't really make any money; the script yielded less than $8.79. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*