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It 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 i
by gmiller123456 8y ago
It 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.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- prepend 8y agoThere’s no login required and consent to TOS is not necessary to access a site, or scrape its data.