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Illegal? Someone's TOS is not a law but mere a wishful suggestion to others who usually won't bother to read it anyways. "You are not allowed ..." is the most
by gesman 10y ago
Illegal?
Someone's TOS is not a law but mere a wishful suggestion to others who usually won't bother to read it anyways.
"You are not allowed ..." is the most laughable statement in TOS.
TOS may however remind of existence of laws.
Laws do or do not allow, TOS are not.
Laws do exist to protect copyrights and trademarks but scraping per se is not illegal.
- shakna 10y agoI'd say the law disagrees with you there. * Facebook vs Power.com [0] * AP vs Meltwater [1], where the ruling decided fair use did not apply to World Wide Web content unless explicitly written in the TOS. There have been a ton of other smaller cases on this. US law currently says that scraping, is trespass. That being said, I find this utterly preposterous. How can one know that one may only access the data in a certain form, and not manipulate or publish it in certain ways, when one must first make a request to see that information? [0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090605/2228205147.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090605/2228205147.shtml [1] https://www.scribd.com/document/131847330/Meltwater-AP-Ruling https://www.scribd.com/document/131847330/Meltwater-AP-Rulin...