X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its dataskilledtothegills@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 336 points – 1 years agostackdiary.comBut what if you do? Will you get caught?44Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentIt 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?
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?
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.
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?
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?