Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat
by okasaki on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:03PM
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It says scraping. I thought scraping was legal?
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Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat
by uberman on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:12PM
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"In addition to harvesting data from WorldCat.org, the defendants are also accused of obtaining and using credentials of a member library to access WorldCat Discovery Services. This opened the door to yet more detailed records that are not available on WorldCat.org."
Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat
by throwup238 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:33PM
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AKA they used their library card number to login via their public library. At least that's how it works with my local library.