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> However, scripting that to do it many thousands of times and then collecting the information that results is a qualitative change of behavior How is this dif
by warfangle 14y ago
> However, scripting that to do it many thousands of times and then collecting the information that results is a qualitative change of behavior
How is this different than using Facebook's graph URI endpoints ---- excepting the fact that Facebook publishes the schema?
What if Facebook had some URIs that were not covered in the schema? Are you then liable for a federal felony if you access them? Or are they liable for failing to protect personal information by not keeping it behind an encryption interface?
- jerf 14y agoI just said it's a qualitative difference. I deliberately did not opine on the legality or the ethics, I simply reject the idea that we can say that there's no difference between a by-hand downloading of a couple of URLs and a massive by-script downloading of thousands+. As is so often the case, there's no bright shining line, but there is a line here, and trying to be reductionistic and claim there's no difference is, in my opinion, not a valid argument. It may very well be the case that it should also not be illegal, or that we want the common sense solution where it's still "illegal" but not a criminal felony but rather a civil matter (illegal is not a binary flag, after all).