[KieranMac]

A better summary:

Summary judgment was granted on behalf of LinkedIn against hiQ Labs for breach of contract. Summary Judgment was denied against hiQ Labs on its CFAA claims. So the court ruled that hiQ breached LinkedIn's contract.

The parties settled their dispute with hiQ Labs agreeing to court-imposed injunction to never again scrape LinkedIn and by paying LinkedIn $500k.

Despite the headlines, the final resolution of these disputes was a win for LinkedIn, not hiQ.

For the longer version, read the posts above.

[cvalka]

We definitely need scrapping neutrality. If you allow any third party(including Google) to scrape your public data, you cannot prohibit anyone else doing the same.

[sangnoir]

Outside of protected classes, I see that argument flying as well as "house party neutrality" for individuals.