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Why don't you try scraping book reviews from Amazon onto your own website and see what happens?
by alayne 13y ago
Why don't you try scraping book reviews from Amazon onto your own website and see what happens?
- japhyr 13y agoIs it about visiting and scraping the site, or what they do with the content they scrape?
- res0nat0r 13y agoBoth. CL wanted them to stop scraping their site because they were republishing content without CL's explicit permission.
- sejje 13y agoWhat if they weren't republishing the data? I believe it's against TOS to scrape at all. Presume they were scraping the data to /dev/null, would that still be an issue? Further, aren't some things INTENDED to be scraped? Like their RSS feeds?
- res0nat0r 13y agoI believe all of that is against the law after they were specifically told not to via a C&D.
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoYou're conflating violating copyright with committing a crime under the CFAA. Then again, the Obama administration wants to make it a felony to stream compyrighted material, so maybe the conflation isn't so outrageous after all.