[giarc]

Your second point is interesting. I suspect the contract between hiQ and some company is that hiQ provides info on public profiles, and if LinkedIn removes all public profiles by requiring a login the contract would become moot. Just the same if I was to change my profile settings from public to private, hiQ wouldn't be in breach of their contract (nor would I).

[onetimemanytime]

Scrapping should either be legal or not. The fact that you have a contract to sell the content you assumed it's legal to scrape, should not matter. Too bad if you lose money