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Re:Is Web Scraping Legal? by fairytale on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:21PM (#28446605)
Why shouldn't it be legal?

When you think a bit better about it, it's about the same as regular web browsing. Just automated or scripted.

I don't think there is much that can be done to fully prevent it either, so.

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Re:Is Web Scraping Legal? by cyberbanjo on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:41PM (#28449669)
Wasn't half of weev's charge for unauthorized access related to him scripting up automated GET requests? It's not clear to me that it is definitely legal IANAL
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Re:Is Web Scraping Legal? by ebb_earl_co on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:39PM (#28449653)
> ... it's about the same as regular web browsing.

Is this how youtube-dl was able to get out of the DMCA takedown? By saying that it's just acting on the links in the public HTML of YouTube?

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