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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by dementiapatien on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:48AM (#32014044)
Since when do you get sued for breaching TOS?
Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by curiousllama on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:53AM (#32014121)
Since you start a business on the violation.

"Since when do I get sued for taking too many free samples from Costco?" -> "Since you started taking millions of them to resell"

Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by jhoelzel on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:17AM (#32014427)
im not sure on american law, but if you give me those samples willingly i can do whatever i want with them.

Actually this is the reason why many products come with the lable "not for resale" but i have yet to find somebody who cares about it :D

Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by treis on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:46AM (#32015539)
>give me those samples willingly

Doesn't seem like Facebook is giving them willingly.

Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by thallium205 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:52AM (#32014097)
Since when do you get sued for breaching a contract? When the offense is worth it.
Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by golemotron on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:59AM (#32014190)
You can get sued for anything that causes harm.

Relevant life lesson: don't do things to people with money that they might perceive as harm.

Corollary: Being sued is as much punishment as losing a suit for most people.

Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by contravariant on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:59AM (#32014193)
I don't know but it's at least been that way since Aaron Swartz did it I suppose.