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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by foxx-boxx on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:38AM (#22180925)
You are abusing other people’s websites without intention to buy something. It’s a lot like stealing.
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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by pc86 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:40AM (#22180941)
Just wow. Don't create throwaways to comment, especially ridiculous comments that are objectively false.

Not every website is selling something, and there is no good faith way in the world to think of saving the result of an HTTP call from a service designed to serve up HTTP calls "abusing."

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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by ravenstine on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:02AM (#22181219)
So... Google are the world's most successful criminal syndicate?
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