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		londons_explore on Aug 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Map APIs from Google I was thinking of users who just wanted to take all the data and ignore any T&C's. Since the Linkedin web-scraping case, T&C's on data on a public website effectively doesn't apply anyway.

dontupvoteme on Aug 30, 2023 [–]

They actually ended up losing that case, but they went to extreme lengths such as using proxies after getting banned and such.

IIRC the important thing was that horrible CFAA law can't be brought into consideration because the supreme court shot that down.

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