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The software project itself is probably fine, but the legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unau
by petcat 1mo ago
The software project itself is probably fine, but the legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unauthorized access of Twitter's website. Seems like that could run afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Those people should seek their own legal advice.
- miningtcup 1mo agoThe project maintainer, Zedeus, runs the most or second-most popular instance, and I assume his lawyers decided that was okay.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoHost the infra in countries unfriendly to the US and its legal framework apparatus. Continually package the archive as torrents for distribution globally. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567595
- miningtcup 1mo agoX already knows who the maintainer is and could easily go after him.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoThey will have to prove he’s operating it, and someone else can orchestrate. Anna’s Archive, Z Lib, Archive.today, Tor exit node patterns. Put a tip jar out, let’s get archiving. “You can just do things.”
- bhhaskin 1mo agoExcept this is settled case law. LinkedIn tried and lost against scrapers.
- petcat 1mo agoThat was a case of scraping explicitly public data that was already available to the general public without any extra effort.
- miningtcup 1mo agoI think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.
- Tostino 1mo agoExplain to me why that matters at all in an ethical sense. Especially given the scraping / pirating that's gone on by all of these companies in the last number of years.
- andOlga 1mo agoWhen have ethics ever mattered in law?
- pessimizer 1mo agoWho cares this is a subthread about legal advice.