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I'm surprised Amazon's legal team signed off on this. It's clearly against the GitHub terms of service[0], and Amazon employees acting on the instructions from
by jsnell 2y ago
I'm surprised Amazon's legal team signed off on this. It's clearly against the GitHub terms of service[0], and Amazon employees acting on the instructions from Amazon had to approve those terms. It seems pretty much identical to the LinkedIn vs. hiQ scraping case, where as I understand the fake account creation was the key point.
[0] E.g. no API key sharing for the purposes of evading rate limits, only a single free account per person or organization.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoWhat if they‘re not free accounts?
- londons_explore 2y agoWhen you pay your legal teams as much as Amazons, they probably tell you "Yeah, you'd probably lose any case, but the fine will be a couple of million dollars and you won't have to pay it for a decade, and by then you'd have cemented your market leadership".