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I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice; but my instinct is you won't get in trouble. Most important argument: the chrome user-agent contains the word 'mo

I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice; but my instinct is you won't get in trouble. Most important argument: the chrome user-agent contains the word 'mozilla'. Obviously (we argue) google isn't intending these to be accurate and instead are some kind of compatibility mark. Are you committing trademark violation? Given the nature of trademarks, it's not clear that you are. Are you misrepresenting yourself to the site in a way that violates the CFAA? This is probably your biggest area of risk. But you can argue the site is giving away information to google, a company whose slogan until recently was 'free the world's information'. Therefore they weren't taking plausible steps to secure the information you've scraped.

mandude 10y ago
What is Google's slogan these days?
- JBReefer 10y ago
  "Tremble in fear before us."
  - yrro 10y ago
    "Cower, brief mortals"
- awinter-py 10y ago
  'stayin alive, stayin alive'? They've done surprisingly well transitioning to mobile & promoted their android guy to CEO, but haven't been able to diversify revenue away from ads. And people are starting to hate ads.
  - pacala 10y ago
    They fired their android guy. They gave android to their chrome guy and made him the CEO.
    - deleted 10y ago
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  - mrkgnao 10y ago
    "When the time comes, add an adblocker to your browser. This will put an end to the whole affair."
- deleted 10y ago
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- rch 10y ago
  Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
UnpossibleJim 10y ago
Speaking of law, and in the modern times this is in the theory of law, not practice, but intent is supposed to count. Now, that being said, the people at the level of the court systems are woefully ignorant of technology and IT more specifically. Intent seems to hold up only those rich enough to push very hard for it and prosecuting attorneys seem to get erections at the thought of putting someone in jail for even the perception of a cyber crime, these days, so.... 50/50 maybe =P

mandude 10y ago

What is Google's slogan these days?

JBReefer 10y ago
"Tremble in fear before us."
- yrro 10y ago
  "Cower, brief mortals"
awinter-py 10y ago
'stayin alive, stayin alive'? They've done surprisingly well transitioning to mobile & promoted their android guy to CEO, but haven't been able to diversify revenue away from ads. And people are starting to hate ads.
- pacala 10y ago
  They fired their android guy. They gave android to their chrome guy and made him the CEO.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
- mrkgnao 10y ago
  "When the time comes, add an adblocker to your browser. This will put an end to the whole affair."
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rch 10y ago
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

UnpossibleJim 10y ago

Speaking of law, and in the modern times this is in the theory of law, not practice, but intent is supposed to count. Now, that being said, the people at the level of the court systems are woefully ignorant of technology and IT more specifically. Intent seems to hold up only those rich enough to push very hard for it and prosecuting attorneys seem to get erections at the thought of putting someone in jail for even the perception of a cyber crime, these days, so.... 50/50 maybe =P