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They want to imply that, but they are wrong.

LinkedIn can't prevent HiQ from attempting to scrape their site through force of law.

LinkedIn can rate limit requests, make their site hard to scrape, change their format, whatever. LinkedIn is in no way responsible for how HiQ fulfills its contract to its customers. HiQ is attempting to say that if I sign a contract to provide you with a Tesla, then it would be illegal for Tesla to stop me from just taking one from them to give to you. If that sounds stupid, that's because it is.