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by Rinzler89 616 days ago
Exactly. That line of reasoning just feels like established players kicking the ladder from under them in order to maintain their moat, when competitors start to catch up: "Hey, web scraping and data mining should only be allowed the right way, where the right way = our way."

"Free market" to them = the market where they get to write the rulebook.

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Pretty sure he meant the typo.
Exactly.