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Re:Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doct... by weinzierl on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:44PM (#18490414)
> Could one use this ruling and copy all of IMDB's film data?

IMDb forbids scrapers in their conditions[1] but you can freely download their datasets[2].

Similar to what you described: omdbapi[3] is a third party API for the free IMDb data.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/conditions

[2] https://datasets.imdbws.com/

[3] http://www.omdbapi.com/

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Re:Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doct... by hummingurban on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:03PM (#18491091)
it's not legally binding and not the law. The TOS can forbid all they want.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...

suggests there is little to no recourse for IMDB and the likes. Craigslist was able to win their case against 3taps, arguing the scraping was putting a load on their servers (typical Craig Newman bullshit) and that they continued scraping even after the IP ban and that is a computer frauds act or something like that which is draconian response likes of which that guy who killed himself because he got caught for scraping academic journals.

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