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Why would scraping their site be illegal?
by twistedanimator 14y ago
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
- jawns 14y agoScraping itself isn't always illegal. But scraping a site and then republishing the content elsewhere often is, unless you have permission.
- xpose2000 14y agoI figured displaying their content in full is illegal.
- twistedanimator 14y agoAh, I hadn't clicked any of the links. I thought you had just linked back to their site. By the way, I like your site. It makes it easy to cut through the cruft that always appears in reddit threads. Do you just grab all responses by the poster and the parent comment?
- CraigRood 14y agoIt's an interesting debate, surely the content is owned by the writers?
- BillSaysThis 14y agoIf they have a full content RSS feed, then this use should be okay. But I hope it survives their scrutiny since this is vastly more readable then the native view.