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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by harryh on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:02AM (#16858357)
A web server is a thing people use to make files publicly accessible

False.

There are lots of things on webservers that aren't public. Try to access:

https://github.com/harryh/my-private-repo

You can't, because github hasn't made a mistake and accidentally made all private repos public.

If github screwed up one day and all private repos were temporarily made public it would be illegal for you to run a script that tried to scrape them all down to your personal hard drive.

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