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Is this a violation of Fandango's TOS?
by tlow 8y ago
Is this a violation of Fandango's TOS?
- minimaxir 8y agoMost likely, although there isn't a practical issue unless they redistribute the raw data.
- daef 8y agoseems like they are advertising a scraping service -> "Want to get the data yourself?"
- minimaxir 8y agoYeah, that's a legal gray area. (also, from looking at the example code, it's unclear what the service is value-adding anyways; you still need to do most of the legwork by figuring out what/how to scrape).
- gmiller123456 8y agoIt is not gray at all, it's a violation of their terms plain and simple. They only gray part is whether or not it's enough of a bother to Fandago to actually initiate legal action.
- ravenstine 8y agoHopefully they offer him a job before taking legal action over something that petty.
- edm0nd 8y agoWhile it is a TOS violation is this data being scraped really hurting anything? I dont think so.
- minimaxir 8y agoThat’s why I said in practice nothing would happen. However, if the data is used to build a competitor or it contains PII, it could be problematic.
- Reedx 8y agoPlus it consumes server resources and bandwidth. And some scrape so aggressively that it's like being DDOS'd.
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- prepend 8y agoThere’s no login required and consent to TOS is not necessary to access a site, or scrape its data.
- paulie_a 8y agoProbably and who gives a shit? Do people actually care about lengthy tos? "Oh I'm not supposed to do that" hits enter
- minimaxir 8y agoGenerally, risking a lawsuit (or worse, criminal charges off of CFAA) is a net negative expected value. OkCupid threatened as such when researchers published scraped data: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-data-release https://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-d...
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