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If a brick and mortar store refuses services and kicks you out for disruption... breaking in at night, taking what you want, and leaving money is still illegal.
by derivagral 6y ago
If a brick and mortar store refuses services and kicks you out for disruption... breaking in at night, taking what you want, and leaving money is still illegal.
I love web scraping (it and tampermonkey basically got me into CS) but lets not act as if this behavior has no moral precedent.
- monocasa 6y agoMore like a brick and mortar starts harassing people on the sidewalk for writing down what is on the posters on the side of their building.
- Chris2048 6y agoAh, the old "unauthorized content handling is the same as theft" nonsense, because a more fitting metaphor wouldn't justify police-state copyright enforcement. Also, what do you mean by "disruption"? Using "their" content in a way they don't like? content manipulation on my machine is my house, not theirs.
- cercatrova 6y agoWeb scraping is completely legal, see the LinkedIn case recently
- feanaro 6y agoYou really shouldn't expect to be able to put up a public website and then get upset when people start connecting to it using a standard, open protocol to retrieve the information you're deliberately exposing to the world.