skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoX updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its datastackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1361arrow-down122file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party
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minus-squareolympicyes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·10 months agoIt’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoIt 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-up18·10 months agoLol, 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-up2·10 months agoIt’s still a billionaire suing you for those peanuts.
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoSuing for 50 dollar or so? Fine.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoUnfortunately, 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-up2·10 months agoWould 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?
minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoIt’s not publicly available anymore. If you’re not logged in you don’t see anything anymore except tweets you have a direct link to. Even then you don’t see any replies and the amount of tweets per day you can see is limited.
It’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.
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?
It’s not publicly available anymore. If you’re not logged in you don’t see anything anymore except tweets you have a direct link to. Even then you don’t see any replies and the amount of tweets per day you can see is limited.