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by Esophagus4 227 days ago
It's a shame the legal system favors big money, because courts typically rule that scraping public data is not against the law[1]. In spite of how much the platforms protest.

Sadly, big companies can bully the scrapers with nuisance lawsuits as long as they wear the scrapers down in legal costs before it gets to trial.

[1]https://www.proskauer.com/release/proskauer-secures-dismissa...

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That's exactly the reason why we need platform transparency and accountability regulation like the EU's DSA.