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Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content? by tstegart on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:24PM (#269010)
Meh, if everyone listened to their lawyer we wouldn't have YouTube or BitTorrent :)
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Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content? by mattmaroon on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @10:00PM (#269270)
I wouldn't suggest you listen to them blindly, but you're crazy if you think YouTube didn't ask actual attorneys for a risk assessment (their VCs would have required that). They certainly didn't ask a bunch of hackers.
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Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content? by drandall on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:57PM (#269059)
insert JP Morgan quote
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Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content? by nickb on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @09:36PM (#269256)
For those who've never heard of this gem :)

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. ~ J. P. Morgan

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Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content? by tstegart on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:59PM (#269062)
haha :)
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