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Scraping internet data is perfectly fine and legal. It may be subject to copyright or ToS (which are not the same) but as long as you don't redistribute copyrig
by bloppe 3y ago
Scraping internet data is perfectly fine and legal. It may be subject to copyright or ToS (which are not the same) but as long as you don't redistribute copyrighted content, or affirmatively accept any ToS, you're doing nothing wrong. So the potential risk lies entirely with the seller, not the buyer, and could potentially be reduced or circumvented in various ways. Just saying
- ggm 3y agoYes. but the article was almost entirely about being that seller. The premise was, "why don't more people scrape the web and sell it" -And if I was an IPR owner and detected a scraper, and then tracked back from their origin IP robot to their web service, I'd be sending my legals round. Offering a brokering service to "share" access to the investment in scraping, has to be done carefully. If for example its brokering access to the page specific structure in some meta notation and you as a consumer scrape direct? thats actually quite cool. If its running a cache of the data re-presented in JSON form for you to consume, or monetising an Elastic Stack of the data and you read it from them? I think its getting iffy to be that seller.
- Havoc 3y ago> Scraping internet data is perfectly fine and legal. I doubt that is true for all jurisdictions
- squatrito23 3y agoIt all comes down to what data: PII (personally Identifiable Info) or IP (Intellectual Property) are strongly protected. There are a lot of useful info not PII or IP that can be collected, used and sold, like prices (Ryanair case against Expedia being a crucial case)
- Havoc 3y agoI'm somewhat ignorant on this matter, but I was under the impression that in some jurisdictions (e.g. UK) scraping as a whole sale concept is pretty grey area at best not just on PII & IP