Court rejects LinkedIn claim that unauthorised scraping is hacking

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https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-poli...-claim-that-unauthorized-scraping-is-hacking/

Huge implications for scrapers and other websites...

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whats there to talk about. what else would it be. google itself is a scraper.
 
It's a complicated topic and I guess well see more debates in the next years or decades.

The fact the content is publicly available doesn't mean it's there to be used and abused by anyone. One can legally make a clause that states the content is to be used only by humans or by a GUI web browser, and one would be in his right to do so as a website is a private property not of public domain. I beileve YouTube actually has something similar in their tos.
 
rafark said:
I beileve YouTube actually has something similar in their tos.
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Courts can always override a TOS. But really the course of action for a massive company that wants to stop something like that is like:
  1. Put a dense legal threat in the terms of service (which may or may not actually be legally enforceable)
  2. If people violate it, ban them from your service and send them a super dense cease and desist letter and possibly formal legal complaint (most people will just give up instead of fighting a company with billions to throw at lawyers)
  3. And then the absolute last thing is to actually go to court and use your multibillion dollar legal team to attempt to actually turn your TOS into law
The point being even with this case companies can still do a lot to legally coerce people to stop doing things like this, regardless of what would actually happen if the issue went to court.
 
If you do not want unregistered users scraping your information then hide it.
Sometimes these corporations loos common sense.

Greedy companies.
 
I scraped this thread earlier, just waiting on my spin software to finish, before I start a new thread...
 
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