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how does expensive bandwidth equate to dodgy clients? There are lot's of valid use cases for scraping data, and it's legal to scrape publicly available data, ev
by peab 2y ago
how does expensive bandwidth equate to dodgy clients? There are lot's of valid use cases for scraping data, and it's legal to scrape publicly available data, even if the websites hosting it try to block it (try a curl request to reddit, for example)
- patmcc 2y ago>>>and it's legal to scrape publicly available data, even if the websites hosting it try to block it Is that something that's been fully decided? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc. is the most relevant case I'm aware of, and it suggests it might actually be illegal (if you know you've been blocked, at least).
- suchintan 2y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2024/01/24/court-rules-in-favor-of-a-web-scraper-bright-data-which-meta-had-used-and-then-sued/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/24/court-rules-in-favor-of-a-... This is another interesting example where it was allowed