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Need to be careful about this one. A student at my alma mater was suspended for doing the same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ucf/comments/xo5ye/ucf_student_pe

by IVDV 9y ago

Need to be careful about this one. A student at my alma mater was suspended for doing the same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ucf/comments/xo5ye/ucf_student_penalized_for_writing_program_to https://www.reddit.com/r/ucf/comments/xo5ye/ucf_student_pena... You have to love the education system...

jjnoakes 9y ago
In your example, he was charging for the service, which was against the terms of use of the web site he was scraping. So in general, do be sure to not violate a site's terms, but I don't see what that point has to do with your final comment...
- lostlogin 9y ago
  What a horrible university. If a system is so bad that people will pay for the improvements, they are doing it wrong.
  - jjnoakes 9y ago
    I don't think "people will pay for <thing>" is justification for "any university that doesn't do <thing> is horrible".
soulchild37 9y ago
I did a similar thing (free mobile app with notification + backend to scrap), gotten a cease and desist letter and threatening not to let me graduate.
kerbalspacepro 9y ago
This blew up at all the Florida unis when it happened. I wonder how much it leaked out to the rest of the Internet.