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Ya, I think the site should be perfectly legal (at least in terms of the scraping). For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure if you demand Google to stop indexing
by mapgrep 9y ago
Ya, I think the site should be perfectly legal (at least in terms of the scraping).
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure if you demand Google to stop indexing your site, it will comply. With robots.txt you can even ask them in an automated fashion.
"Legal speak and lawyers" are how we hold our society together in a relatively peaceful and just fashion. Yes, we end up with bad laws, like CFAA, and some days I think the U.S. will just collapse in on itself. But it beats all the alternatives that have been seriously tried. Please remember, lawyers not only try and enforce the CFAA, but are the ones challenging it as well!
PS Also I think this provision of CFAA is already being rolled back - though I assume there will be appeals - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-linkedin-claim-that-unauthorized-scraping-is-hacking/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li...