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Scraping for non-profit purposes feels fine. Scraping for commercial purposes feels dirty. I don't know if there's a way for the law to square that circle.
by wslack 5y ago
Scraping for non-profit purposes feels fine. Scraping for commercial purposes feels dirty. I don't know if there's a way for the law to square that circle.
- postalrat 5y agoHow about a browser extension that scrapes only the the profile you are visiting and adds that information to an ATS. Just to prevent a lot of copy paste.
- fncypants 5y agoIf what you are feeling is that scraping for commercial purposes feels "unfair," that is because if it is not allowed it traditionally falls within a legal cause of action commonly called "unfair competition." In the same vein as trade secret theft. So the law does square that circle, but the line drawn is a fuzzy gray one. Its unfair to free ride off a competitor, but yet some kinds of actions that look like free riding are in fact allowed.
- jrochkind1 5y agoWhen Google does it, it's commercial, right? Should you need a license from all indexed content to make a search engine? Isn't indexing for search what HiQ is doing too?