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A small Chrome extension got the attention of a large media conglomerate
- ananonymoususer 7y agoA recent US court decision may be of help: https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scraping-a-site-without-permission-isnt-illegal/ https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scr...
- isiahl 7y agoI actually discuss this court case at the end of the post!
- Nextgrid 7y agoWe need a legal precedent stating that programmatically accessing public data is not illegal nor considered copyright infringement. If a user can access the data directly (whether for free or by paying the original service and getting an account) then they should be allowed to delegate that task to software.