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by brushfoot 805 days ago
Exactly, that was my point.

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.