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Typically for copyright infringement. They'll sue you for the maximum legal damages possible per copy, multiplied by the number of times your bot loaded a page
by jandrese 2y ago
Typically for copyright infringement. They'll sue you for the maximum legal damages possible per copy, multiplied by the number of times your bot loaded a page, probably in the trillions of dollars.
- CuriouslyC 2y agoSo have the bot act on behalf of the user, using workers run on the user's machine. That's fair use.
- phone8675309 2y agoAre you in the habit of releasing software that causes users to violate the ToS of services?
- CuriouslyC 2y agoI'm happy to write code to let users circumvent the restrictions put in place by assholes, as long as it doesn't end up getting them in legal trouble I'm fine with it. If companies like google don't want people to try and screw them over, I suggest they offer an olive branch and stop being unethical jerks.