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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by danaris on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:57AM (#32014159)
I don't have a source for this, but my recollection is that this has been successfully argued by a couple of companies—but then an appeals court found very firmly that it was not the case.

Essentially, having that be true would mean that any given website could create whole new classes of criminal behavior.

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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by zinekeller on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:03AM (#32014240)
> having that be true would mean that any given website could create whole new classes of criminal behavior.

While this is true, reading the lawsuit it is clear that Meta is suing in civil court, so maybe they're trying to enforce their contract, especially their automated collection ToS (https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php)?

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