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      1 year ago

      Not fully legal either though. We’ll see much more pressure to make it illegal in the next few years

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          1 year ago

          This article describes the grey area pretty well and it also links to a legal case.

          https://www.scraperapi.com/blog/is-web-scraping-legal/

          I believe we’re now entering a new era online. AI has now made scrapping a much more lucrative business. I think we will see a greater effort to build walls so company’s have to pay for this information. We’re dealing with people who get their way strictly through the court system. Reddit and twitter won’t be the last company to make these changes.

          This next decade will be all about hording information online. Its like the modern day version of arguing whose cows were eating what on whose land. Lawyers are salivating at the next decade and the losers will be all of us.