Re:Web Scraping in 2016
by jessaustin on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:51PM
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The reasonable laws that exist in meatspace are not applicable online, because once you hit someone else's server, you're considered to be on their property and they have the right to control what you do there. There is no "public property" from which to safely stand and take photographs in the internet.
IANAL but this seems perverse. In no meaningful sense am I on corporate property when my computer in my house sends signals to another computer, formatted so that they will be re-sent in turn to a series of other computers, the last of which decides on its own based entirely on the signal it receives from the penultimate host to send a "response" to a different series of other computers, the last of which is my computer in my house.
Surely there are better ways to enforce IP restrictions than this tortured analogy of networked computing to physical location?
IANAL but this seems perverse. In no meaningful sense am I on corporate property when my computer in my house sends signals to another computer, formatted so that they will be re-sent in turn to a series of other computers, the last of which decides on its own based entirely on the signal it receives from the penultimate host to send a "response" to a different series of other computers, the last of which is my computer in my house.
Surely there are better ways to enforce IP restrictions than this tortured analogy of networked computing to physical location?