Originally Posted by
HadesNL
Dear Roame,
I've been a fan of your work since the first hour but i do want to warn you about the new developments.
You must have heard about the "interesting" KVS tool situation which has eh.. diverse opnions on FT
Now it seems ExpertFlyer is getting the chop for scrapping
your main competitors
seatsareo & pointme
could be next if you "compare" their inner workings and datapool with the 2 aforementioned "tools"
do take caution for your present users and for yourself, just a friendly observation and advance headsup
Those letters are nonsense.US Courts have said time and time again scraping is legal.
"...the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S. law."
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The case before the Ninth Circuit was originally brought by LinkedIn against Hiq Labs, a company that uses public data to analyze employee attrition. LinkedIn said Hiq’s mass web scraping of LinkedIn user profiles was against its terms of service, amounted to hacking and was therefore a violation of the CFAA. LinkedIn first lost the case against Hiq in 2019 after the Ninth Circuit found that the CFAA does not bar anyone from scraping data that’s publicly accessible.)