• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    He spoke carelessly, but he didn’t exactly say what the author said he said. You can in fact do many things with it. Copyright doesn’t care what you do if you aren’t copying. That’s the definition of the word.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      So I can pirate as many movies as I want as long as I’m only watching them?

      Let these rich guys keep talking for a sec. I can get behind this somewhat.

      • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        No. It’s only illegal if you republish what you scrape. Absolutely nothing prevents any company from scraping the web and using that information internally.

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        4 months ago

        I think that depends how you write your web scraper. Of course the web scraper is going to load the page, just like your web browser does, which by all accounts is not an issue. What happens after the page is loaded depends on how the software is written.