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I ran a company based on web scraping for a couple years and I heard never ending comments about how what we were doing was illegal. Thank god that conversatio
by andrewseanryan 7y ago
I ran a company based on web scraping for a couple years and I heard never ending comments about how what we were doing was illegal. Thank god that conversation is over.
- foxx-boxx 7y agoYou are abusing other people’s websites without intention to buy something. It’s a lot like stealing.
- pc86 7y agoJust wow. Don't create throwaways to comment, especially ridiculous comments that are objectively false. Not every website is selling something, and there is no good faith way in the world to think of saving the result of an HTTP call from a service designed to serve up HTTP calls "abusing."
- ravenstine 7y agoSo... Google are the world's most successful criminal syndicate?
- g0ph3r 7y agoHmmmm...