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Re:Web Scraping in 2016 by wang_li on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#12346859)
I have a custom X-TOS header in all of my http/https requests that states that the company who owns rights to the website my request is sent to and replies with data owes me:

1. Total privacy, they will not track me activity on their website, including any logs.

2. They will send me a cashier's check for $1,000 for each byte that they send to me.

3. They will provide me with Mana Sakura's cell phone number.

I'm still waiting for checks and a phone number.

Re:Web Scraping in 2016 by cookiecaper on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:56PM (#12346976)
If you can convince a judge that this represents an enforceable contract, as has been done and established with clickwrap, then you should be able to get what you're owed. :)

It is ridiculous. Something like "pagewrap" can't trump the consumer protections that apply to a physical good like a book, it would be laughed off. But the law doesn't contemplate network access so reasonably.