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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by kortilla on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:40PM (#31076212)
No, because those are people going to the mall. Not robots 100x the quantity of real people.
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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by signatoremo on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:41PM (#31078952)
Unlike the mall a website can scale up to serve more users at relatively low cost. Also those robots may bring more people to the website. Potentially a lot more even.
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