Ley No. 53-07 sobre Crímenes y Delitos de Alta Tecnología, Acceso Ilícito

Article 6 (Acceso Ilícito) sanctions accessing an electronic, computer, telematic, or telecommunications system or its components, whether or not using another's identity, or exceeding an authorization, with three months to one year of imprisonment and a fine of one to two hundred times the minimum wage; a first paragraph raises the penalty to one to three years of imprisonment and a fine of two to four hundred times the minimum wage where the illicit access suppresses or modifies data, or discloses confidential data found in the accessed system, and a second paragraph imposes that same one-to-three-year, two-to-four-hundred-times range on exploiting access obtained coincidentally or unintentionally.

Article 5 (Códigos de Acceso) separately sanctions divulging, generating, copying, capturing, using, altering, trafficking, or decoding an access code or similar mechanism used to achieve illicit access, or falsifying an access device, with one to three years of imprisonment and a fine of twenty to one hundred times the minimum wage; a separate paragraph on cloning an access device for resale, distribution, or fraudulent financial transactions raises this to one to ten years of imprisonment and a fine of two to five hundred times the minimum wage, the most severe tier either article carries.

Neither article's text turns on defeating a technical security measure, so a scraper's authorization status, rather than the presence of a technical barrier, is what the statute conditions liability on; no reported Dominican decision applying either article to a scraper reading public pages was located.