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"U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs, and ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours a
by charlesdm 9y ago
"U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs, and ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles."
Interesting ruling
- danschumann 9y agoI would hope there is a special consideration for any anti-ddos technology they have. It would be hard to differentiate between a ddos'er and a scraper. Rate limiting for ddos attacks might affect a scraper, then the question ( that linkedin is asking ), is how low can we limit them without looking like we're blocking them. I have a feeling this isn't over!
- 0xCMP 9y agoI wonder if this isn't such a big deal since it's not like they're gonna verify beyond "can they scrape now?" As long as that is true then they will likely not run in to issues. Other issues are not for blocking them and case can be made that it's a separate issue. Defending against common internet attacks is an easy case to make to a Judge. He can't be expect LinkedIn, in this case, to kill their service so someone can scrape.