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Except this is settled case law. LinkedIn tried and lost against scrapers.

• petcat 25d ago
  That was a case of scraping explicitly public data that was already available to the general public without any extra effort.
  • mitxela 25d ago
    Which is exactly what Twitter is?
    • petcat 25d ago
      no twitter requires a login
      • mitxela 24d ago
        Which anyone can make
• miningtcup 25d ago
  I think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.
  • Tostino 25d ago
    Explain 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 25d ago
      When have ethics ever mattered in law?
    • pessimizer 25d ago
      Who cares this is a subthread about legal advice.
  • mitxela 25d ago
    That is still a form of publicly available.