LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission

Re:LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without perm... by mywittyname on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:29PM (#14893420)

They are within their right to require authorization to their content, yes, but they don't do that. They make it public and allow some companies to scrape that content and resell it for profit (like Google), but while restricting other companies from doing the same.

If they don't want their data to be public, then they shouldn't make it public. They could require authorization to view any content on the site and solve this problem instantly.

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Re:LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without perm... by debacle on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:43PM (#14893568)

What leads you to believe that LinkedIn's data is public?

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Re:LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without perm... by int_handler on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:02PM (#14897156)

I believe mywittyname is specifically referring to the LinkedIn profile pages that are publicly visible without requiring a login and is not claiming that all LinkedIn's data is public. Thus, the question is why doesn't LinkedIn simply hide all profile data behind user authentication?

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