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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by drdaeman on Monday September 09, 2013 @09:21PM (#6357429)
Aren't the same exact APIs are serving as backend to that "public version"?

If so, looking at whatever data's on your wire (browsers are subclass of user-agents for a reason), and then doing similar requests by example does not make you sign some agreement with Google, right?

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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by enneff on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:56PM (#6358074)
> Aren't the same exact APIs are serving as backend to that "public version"?

Nope.

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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by Killswitch on Monday September 09, 2013 @09:44PM (#6357540)
Just because their app consumes their API doesn't mean that the app and it's endusers are subject to the same terms as the API.
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