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Old Oct 11, 2023 | 9:55 am
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Originally Posted by Global321
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."

(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.)
The term to describe this that comes to mind is "lawfare". The #1 definition "the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent". As long as a large and relatively well funded organization can continually push a much smaller organization around the courts, it will eventually cause the smaller organization to stop/cease/go bankrupt.
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