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In the analog age, imagine someone made a card index of some interesting data you can come in a shop to consult, for a fee. Would breaking into their premises
by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
In the analog age, imagine someone made a card index of some interesting data you can come in a shop to consult, for a fee.
Would breaking into their premises to steal or copy the cards be on the same side of the line as the digital variant?
- dstick 5y agoScraping a website in your analog analogy would be a store where those index cards would be plastered to the shop’s windows, visible from the outside. The “scraper” would come by every day and manually copy (as in, write in their own notebook) what was on those index cards that are visible from the street. So the question is: would you consider that stealing?
- skummetmaelk 5y agoIt's more like you going to the public library to borrow every single book they have. Thereby forcing the library staff to handle all your requests. You would probably not expect to be allowed to do this in real life.
- dstick 5y agoGood point! There is an increased pressure on a public service. Hadn’t thought about that parameter.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoExcept its aprivate service. Stop trying to lawyer this through analigies people, think about the actual situation at hand, instead of drawing broken parallels to some hypothetical