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You don't think a team of Microsoft lawyers could find a way to sue you for marketing to LinkedIn users a tool expressly designed and marketed for the purpose o
by throwanem 4y ago
You don't think a team of Microsoft lawyers could find a way to sue you for marketing to LinkedIn users a tool expressly designed and marketed for the purpose of violating the EULA those users agreed to as a condition of creating their accounts? Thank you for exemplifying the value of the old advice against litigating pro se, I suppose.
LinkedIn is being a lot more generous here than they really need to be. Getting an Ask HN to the front page about it wasn't terribly smart, but then this is why the only good advice for OP in this thread is "talk to a lawyer", which anyone who's already incorporated an LLC really should not need telling, but whatever.
- bee_rider 4y agoIt is a general purpose tool. I mean autohotkey or any open source web browser could be hypothetically used/modified to scrape websites. What do you think about just removing that example?
- throwanem 4y agoI think if I received the same C&D, I'd email it to my retained lawyer and ask for advice. I think I would expect to be advised I should comply fully and without undue delay. And I think that's exactly what I would then proceed to do. (I also think we're talking past one another, which tends to happen when I participate in discussions like this. I'm not a lawyer, but when you spend long enough sleeping with someone who is, it's amazing what you pick up - and how many silly notions originating in the assumption that 'law is really just a kind of code, right?' you find yourself perhaps ungently disabused of.)