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I'm in a similar job. We block people from scraping if they break a threshold, but we also refer them to the reporting system, which can get all of the information that they are collecting in a variety of formats.

I wonder if something like this would be allowed: if all the public information was available in a well-collated format, then can scrapers be blocked? I imagine that will eventually be fought in court as well.



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