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cobbzilla on Oct 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?

Sure, if you’re actually visiting the site. But (at least in the US) didn’t the recent LinkedIn case find that if my scraper pulls public data off your site, the TOS doesn’t apply?

This court decision doesn’t mean “no rules for scrapers”, rather it means “different rules for scrapers, independent of any site-specific TOS”. Or did I misunderstand the decision?

nabla9 on Oct 4, 2019 [–]

Consumer law applies for consumer users and has different protections than other users have.

Web scraper as a consumer use is hard to argue.

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