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I mean, it's public data... you scrape it with your eyes whenever you view a web page, and your computer scrapes it in the browser. Saying web scraping should be illegal is like saying taking photos of buildings should be illegal.


Taking a photo of a copyrighted photo (and distributing it) is illegal. You're just saying that anything that's technically possible should be legal, since there is no need to prohibit the technically impossible.




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