Web Scraping Legality
This cluster centers on debates about the legality, ethics, and implications of web scraping public websites, including TOS violations, copyright concerns, and precedents like LinkedIn v. hiQ, often contrasting with Google's practices.
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Google claims Only they are allowed to scrape data for profit!
Is non-AI-related scraping now legal too?
Why not? Because of liability to law suits for breach of the terms of service or copyright violation. Third parties have been sued for scraping in the past.
While it is a TOS violation is this data being scraped really hurting anything? I dont think so.
When is it illegal to scrape a website?
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
Wouldn't that be considered illegal due to the same reasons as scraping?
Because scraping a public website is different from breaking into adobes private source control servers?
Seems there is a scraping precedent already, set by Linkedin v HiQhttps://www.fbm.com/publications/what-recent-rulings-in-hiq-...
That's cool. How does it work with website Ts & Cs, which generally don't like scraping?