"It's a fight that could determine whether an anti-hacking law can be used to curtail the use of scraping tools across the Web." In the US. Not elsewhere. Is i

"It's a fight that could determine whether an anti-hacking law can be used to curtail the use of scraping tools across the Web." In the US. Not elsewhere. Is it possible that the centre of gravity of innovation will be somewhere, er, less litigious soon? Reminds me of the City of London's historical approach to most forms of regulation (think: Francis Drake, privateers, the convertibility of lute strings &c).