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For that matter, how is scraping meaningfully different from search indexing done by Google, Bing, et. al. ?
(Hint: it’s not)
This whole idea is unworkable. Web scraping existed before the web even existed.
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Good post, Cory. I hope more people will read it.
I agree I hope it is strong though Cory
Remember how the CAN SPAM law removed private action and superseded laws like VA’s
I think states need to be able to be stricter if they want given the rot in Washington
Seems like I remember something called spidering a far ways back that was like scraping. Is that correct?
/scratches head
Ban scraping, you say? And how will that work?
One person’s scraper is another’s web crawler.
Yep, scraping, crawling, spidering, or indexing, on a technology level are identical activities.
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