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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by inlined on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:23PM (#31077985)
Alternatively it could be seen that your juice company offers free samples. Then somebody abuses free and takes gallons home with them to bottle and sell as their own.

That’s what it feels like when someone is scraping your network to bootstrap a competitor.

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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by ryan_j_naughton on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:40AM (#31080020)
Again, what you call abuse of free samples, someone else calls a savvy strategy tailored to you're poorly crafted business plan. Have ways to limit the free samples or else it's your fault...
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