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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by zja on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:56AM (#32014148)
Violating TOS no; Gaining access beyond your authority maybe https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/court-violating-terms-...
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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by CoastalCoder on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:08AM (#32015061)
I was assuming that in this case, a person's authority was specifically granted by the ToS.

I wondered if the interplay of those two concepts muddied the waters.

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