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oauea
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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
Since when are terms of service legally binding?
sodality2
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Legally binding =/= enforceable with penalties or illegal to break (excepting revocation of service). Breaking TOS is not a crime [0]
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...
colejohnson66
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They never weren’t. After all, they’re contracts that you agree to when you check the box. Some
clauses
may be unenforceable, but voiding a clause does not necessarily void the whole contract.
maglite77
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Always have been. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service
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