Basically, in the end, it was essentially a breach of contract.
hiQ's public scraping was found to be legal. It was the logged-in scraping that was the problem.
The logged-in scraping was a breach of contract, as you said.
The former is fine; the latter is not.
What OpenAI is doing here is the former, which companies are perfectly within their rights to do.
hiQ's public scraping was found to be legal. It was the logged-in scraping that was the problem.
The logged-in scraping was a breach of contract, as you said.
The former is fine; the latter is not.
What OpenAI is doing here is the former, which companies are perfectly within their rights to do.