Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not allowing the CFAA to be (ab)used to attempt to make scraping illegal makes sense. However, how is it reasonable to force a web site to serve its contents to a third-party company, without being allowed to make a decision whether to serve it or not? Serving the web site costs money, and the scraper surely isn't going to generate ad income...
Does their robots.txt say don't crawl this part of the site? If it does, this ruling is catastrophic. If it doesn't then there is hope.
I know it is a generally considered bad form to ask, but did you read much of the ruling? I feel like a lot of people on this thread are just going off of Animats' comment and haven't spent much time looking at the opinion.
I didn't read the whole thing, but skimmed through it and read what seemed to be the relevant parts of the argument. (Including the bit that talks about LinkedIn's robots.txt)
The ruling doesn't really support your claim of catastrophe and doesn't claim to pass any sort of final judgement.
The judge makes a specific point about not reading too much into him upholding the injunction saying:
>> These appeals generally provide “little guidance” because “of the limited scope of our review of the law” and “because the fully developed factual record may be materially different from that initially before the district court.”