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by alkonaut 3302 days ago
Yes - Like I said I think it's perfectly find that the material I download from the internet has terms and laws associated with it. That is, what I do with what I download is subject to laws as soon as I e.g. try to publish it.

But my point is this: what service have I used, and what terms can I be assumed to have agreed to if I do this

    > wget $random_url > /dev/null
That's what web scraping is. What I do with the scraped material is something completely different.
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In that case, you are bound to these terms of service: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616