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I did a bit of data scraping for fun in the past, but I was never quite sure of the legality of what I was doing. What if I was breaking some law in some jurisd
by dorkwood 3y ago
I did a bit of data scraping for fun in the past, but I was never quite sure of the legality of what I was doing. What if I was breaking some law in some jurisdiction of some country? Was someone going to track me down and punish me?
OpenAI has taught me that no one gives a shit. Scrape the entire internet if you want, and use the data for whatever you feel like.
- ifyoubuildit 3y agoDo you think it would be better if someone did track you down and punish you? Which world do you want to live in?
- n0sleep 3y agoI think large companies should be punished for stealing from people to make themselves richer.
- EcommerceFlow 3y agoA precursor to this would have been that Linkedin lawsuit Microsoft lost, allowing that one company to scrape all of Linkedin (technically "public information").
- htrp 3y agohiQ Labs v. LinkedIn
- alt-glitch 3y agoWe were really heading someplace with The Semantic Web aka The Real Web 3.0 [1] Alas we have to fight against the machines in order to properly read the internet thru machines. I believe Discourse knowingly keeps its data easy to scrape though, so kudos to them! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
- bsuvc 3y ago> OpenAI has taught me that no one gives a shit. Scrape the entire internet if you want, and use the data for whatever you feel like. Cloudflare gives a shit. My household had to use our 5G internet for most things for a week or two until our IP reputation recovered.
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