[curun1r]

That's the privilege of writing for a well-respected, national magazine.

If he had scraped the content to integrate into a movie torrent indexing site, he most likely would have run into legal difficulties. But since he was scraping the content to create a thought-provoking article about the kinds of interesting problems that Netflix is working on, it became PR gold for Netflix and they cooperated.

You can generally get away with a lot of things that would otherwise be actionable by simply considering the perspective of party that would have to act. In this case, he correctly reasoned that Netflix would rather see the article that was published rather than a "Netflix sued me for playing with their site."