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Where do you see that they won the case? Can you provide a source because the wikipedia article directly contradicts what you are saying...? I see they went to
by crazypyro 3y ago
Where do you see that they won the case? Can you provide a source because the wikipedia article directly contradicts what you are saying...?
I see they went to the Supreme Court who kicked it back to the Ninth who then re-affirmed their position that HiQ Labs was not in violation of the CFAA.
- satvikpendem 3y agoFrom [0] and [1], it seems it was a mixed ruling. I am actually not sure whether it's now legal to scrape, since the Court ruled against hiQ due to a breach of terms of service, but previously the Ninth Circuit Court affirmed its ruling against LinkedIn. [0] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/court-finds-hiq-breached-linkedin-s-terms-prohibiting-scraping-mixed-ruling-declines https://www.natlawreview.com/article/court-finds-hiq-breache... [1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-proposed-settlement-landmark-scraping-case https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-...
- crazypyro 3y ago> The hiQ decisions give a green light, at least in some circumstances, to scraping publicly available websites without fear of liability under the CFAA. So at a federal level, it seems relatively clear. The only uncertainty is on the state level.