skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its datastackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1361arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1339arrow-down1external-linkX updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its datastackdiary.comskilledtothegills@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 年前It didn’t have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.
minus-squareEranziel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 年前Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.
minus-squarekometes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前It’s still a billionaire suing you for those peanuts.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前Unfortunately, they have more money to blow on legal fees. The threat of a suit is enough to keep most perks from fucking around and finding out.
minus-squareSalix@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn’t make an account?
It didn’t have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.
Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.
Bandwidth costs.
Peanuts.
It’s still a billionaire suing you for those peanuts.
Suing for 50 dollar or so? Fine.
Unfortunately, they have more money to blow on legal fees. The threat of a suit is enough to keep most perks from fucking around and finding out.
Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn’t make an account?