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Re:Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017) by jjeaff on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:57PM (#20571092)
Seems like that would have the undesirable effect of making large corporations untouchable by anyone except the government and other large corporations.

If you want to sue a big company for treating you poorly, you risk a very high price of you lose.

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Re:Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017) by yub on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:34PM (#20571516)
That’s the point of the American Rule - every side pays their own way.
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Re:Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017) by RichEO on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:16AM (#20571683)
That only holds if the laws allow the large corporation to treat people unfairly.
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Re:Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017) by icebraining on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:30AM (#20573434)
Even if the law is fair in 99.9% of the cases, if that 0.1% means you're on the hook for more than you can afford, it's rational not to risk it.
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