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This is surprising. It's a no-brainer that using someone's API to scrape their entire site (and releasing the data!) is begging for a lawsuit. You don't even ha
by coderdude 17y ago
This is surprising. It's a no-brainer that using someone's API to scrape their entire site (and releasing the data!) is begging for a lawsuit. You don't even have the somewhat weak defense of "it's public data because it's publicly accessible" when you rip it from a service they provide. I'd be willing to bet that at least in several places their TOS says "hey, we know what you're thinking, but..."
- coderdude 17y agoTo anyone interested, I asked this question over on the InfoChimps blog. Response I got clued me in to just how little I knew of Twitter's TOS: http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/11/11/twitter-census-publishing-the-first-of-many-datasets/comment-page-1/#comment-233 http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/11/11/twitter-census-publish... So disregard what I said in the context of Twitter data.