The Courts Make It Clear: Scraping Websites Is Still Legal - Gizmodo

The latest ruling in a high-profile case brought by LinkedIn case reaffirms that "hacking" and "scraping" aren't the same thing.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled Monday that scraping personal data from a public website is totally, entirely legal. For those that havent been following the scraping saga until now, the cou… [+2918 chars]

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