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TOS is not a law
by dzek69 3y ago
TOS is not a law
- chrisshroba 3y agoBut in some (not all!) cases it is a lawful contract, so it's worth consideration.
- super256 3y agoWhat if I crawl reddit comments without ever clicking on „agree“/signing up?
- raldi 3y agoThen the same law would apply as if you recorded a movie in a theater and distributed it without signing anything.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoHow do you figure? In a movie you bought a ticket, that ticket is your contract with the theater, whereas scraping content while logged out is more like filming a police beating.
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- raldi 3y agoIf you’re record a sporting event off broadcast TV, is it your impression that the law allows you to redistribute the recording freely?
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoOnly if you agree to it.
- raldi 3y agoIf you don't agree to the licensing terms, then you have no legal right to access, archive, or redistribute the content.
- neovialogistics 3y agoIs it true that people have no right to access any of the content on a website based in the USA without agreeing to that website's TOS if: * the majority of the content is publically available to users who have not agreed to the TOS, such as when arriving on the website for the first time from a search engine result?
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoLinkedin lost the case on this AFAIK. It is allowed to scrape linkedin if you haven't accepted TOS. They could TOS-wall the site, but if they allow to access without TOS then you could access it without agreeing. Also Google definitely access every site and even caches it without accepting any TOS.