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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by macinjosh on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:47AM (#32015547)
Google search's business model is scraping the web, indexing it, and then pasting ads all over their search results made up of other people's content. If Google can build a business on third-party data then these meta scrapers can do the same thing.

It is like saying a photographer can't photograph a building from the street because she doesn't own it. The building is there, taking a picture takes nothing from the building. That is all that is going on here, repeating publicly available information.

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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by injidup on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:07PM (#32015789)
No it's more like you subletting an apartment to a dodgy photographer who wants to take pictures of the children's playground your back window looks out on even though your contract explicitly forbids it subletting. The suit is against companies that use login credentials that are not theirs. It is not public information that is being scraped. It is information behind a login with a terms of service for what you are allowed to do with that login.
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