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> The person who sets up that robot is the person responsible and effectively signing the contract by those actions. If that was true, then all scraping of a w
by stymaar 17d ago
> The person who sets up that robot is the person responsible and effectively signing the contract by those actions.
If that was true, then all scraping of a website with a ToS would be illegal, yet it's established by jurisprudence that it's not. And “authentication” doesn't change the picture here in Amy way, because it's not actually authentication.
- nkozyra 16d ago> all scraping of a website with a ToS would be illegal, yet it's established by jurisprudence that it's not Because terms of service require both parties to accept! If I hold a contract outside your window and scream "you accept this contract" it doesn't bind you simply by looking out the window.
- stymaar 16d agoThis is literally my point. A POST request on a roure called /login doesn't change anything to that fact.