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Re:How I got sued by Facebook (2010) by Animus7 on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:15AM (#2367762)
Google can mine the data and do whatever they want (and I don't doubt for a second that they run analysis on it), but this guy can't?

Facebook wants to have their cake and eat it to. They want free Google publicity but god forbid some dude starts downloading pages for research. It's legal, but it's wrong.

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Re:How I got sued by Facebook (2010) by greendestiny on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:57AM (#2367831)
I'm really only interested in the legal question. And I genuinely would like to be convinced that the legal system would allow scraping like this. I just don't see it.
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