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by saurik 1538 days ago
Potentially useful reference regarding the status of one of the most important such lawsuits:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...

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yeah post linkedin, it gave the green light to scrape any publicly available information. Craiglist bullied scrapers via lawsuit (EFF covered it) but post linkedin, there has been zero grounds for Craigslist to use the DDOS argument (since the website is built to handle far more traffic than scrapers can).