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See Craigslist vs 3taps. It's not clear if scraping is legal either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

• dreamsofdragons 10y ago
  Wow, google must be on some pretty shaky ground then...
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  • joshmn 10y ago
    Think about The Internet Archive!
  • sbierwagen 10y ago
    Google/Alphabet is very close to the Obama administration, so it is unlikely they would be prosecuted: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/ https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...
  • comex 10y ago
    No, they're not. To quote from the linked Wikipedia article: > the court held that sending a cease-and-desist letter and enacting an IP address block is sufficient notice of online trespassing, which a plaintiff can use to claim a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act If someone wants to block Google, they can simply add a robots.txt entry. An IP block would work too. (Sending a cease-and-desist letter might or might not also work, but it doesn't really matter - context and intent matters in court; Google accepting the standard robots.txt as a 'go away' signal should be more than sufficient.)