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#631787990085 | X and Meta's past data scraping lawsuit losses and how it would relate to nitter | https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-corp-loses-lawsuit-aga... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487864
Perhaps Google can succeed where others like Meta and X have failed, or perhaps not
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46...
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because a lot of things is public online and can't be copied and sold e.g. due to copyright, patents and trademark. Also if you access a website you are bound to a ToS contract and this is a breach of that contract.
Breaching a contract isn’t a crime though, it’s a civil matter.
You asked if it was immoral, not if it was a crime.
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#65Well, most engineers are familiar with GIGO. Garbage in...
Err, thats where my comment stops. Garbage in. Yup.
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#66Very impressive figuring out all 4 checks. I'm not even sure this was reverse engineered, rather than leaked. I wish it mentioned anything about the methodology they used
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#67Is this even useful in any way?
There is even a use case at the end which tracks which songs are currently trending. You basically get access to all of TikTok's data. If you don't see why analytics on this data are so valuable, lookup varoufaki's concept of cloud capital.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because a lot of things is public online and can't be copied and sold e.g. due to copyright, patents and trademark. Also if you access a website you are bound to a ToS contract and this is a breach of that contract.
Breaching a contract isn’t a crime though, it’s a civil matter.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any company could potentially be hacked, so by that standard all data is public. And no, the ToS is legally binding on the company as well.
You don’t see a difference between accessing data by hacking a service (which is illegal) and downloading/scraping data that’s not protected? The TOS are a contract and only a civil thing afaik.
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