Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by TedDoesntTalk on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:31PM (#31076082)

NordVPN (Tesonet) has another business doing the same thing. They sell the IP addresses/bandwidth of their NordVPN customers to anyone who needs bulk mobile or residential IP addresses. That's right, installing their VPN software adds your IP address to a pool that NordVPN then resells. Xfinity/Comcast sort of pioneered this with their wifi routers that automatically expose an isolated wifi network called 'xfinity' (IIRC) whether you agree or not.

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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by duskwuff on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:40PM (#31076223)

The Comcast access points do, at least, have the saving grace that they're on a separate network segment from the customer's hardware, and don't share an IP address or bandwidth/traffic limit with the customer.

Tesonet and other similar services (e.g. Luminati) don't have that. As far as anyone -- including web services, the ISP, or law enforcement -- are concerned, their traffic is the subscriber's traffic.

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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by rascul on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:13PM (#31076638)

> They sell the IP addresses/bandwidth of their NordVPN customers to anyone who needs bulk mobile or residential IP addresses

I would be interested in a reference for this if you have one.

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