> A federal appeals court last week issued a “hugely important” decision with potentially major implications for data journalists when it held that using computer programs to collect publicly available information from the internet — or “scraping” — likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the main federal computer crime statute.
Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu...
by cyphar on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:23PM
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The CFAA has nothing to do with copyright and that finding would only be relevant if the youtube-dl authors (or users) were being criminally prosecuted under the CFAA.
> A federal appeals court last week issued a “hugely important” decision with potentially major implications for data journalists when it held that using computer programs to collect publicly available information from the internet — or “scraping” — likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the main federal computer crime statute.
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