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Thank you. I'm not sure if this analogy is correct but isn't that like a host of a museum telling people do not take pictures yet someone did it anyway and sold
by 4684499 9y ago
Thank you. I'm not sure if this analogy is correct but isn't that like a host of a museum telling people do not take pictures yet someone did it anyway and sold the pictures he took?
- dawidloubser 9y agoI don't quite think so. There are specific laws governing the use of of, say, photographic equipment within a private property. If a web server, on other other hand, willingly serves content to both a browser being operated by a human, as well as screen-scraping software, then it shouldn't try to prescribe how the screen-scraper uses that information. It would be the equivalent to, every time, asking somebody that works in the museum if you can take a picture, and them saying "yes", and then wanting to complain (or sue) afterwards.
- icebraining 9y agoIf a web server, on other other hand, willingly serves content to both a browser being operated by a human, as well as screen-scraping software, then it shouldn't try to prescribe how the screen-scraper uses that information. That's not what was happening here. LinkedIn's server was blocking HiQ, and HiQ sued LinkedIn to prevent them from doing that.