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Facebook was founded by an outlaw scraper. Game recognize game, they're just neutralizing a threat, don't worry about the legal window dressing.

Read about Zuck's wget magic here, and how he illegally scraped (guarantee it was a TOS violation) all the Harvard online facebooks in 2003: http://www.scribd.com/mobile/documents/538697

As Balzac said, behind every great fortune lies a great crime :)

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Where did that diary entry come from? Was that entered into public record as a result of a lawsuit against Facebook or something?

If it's real (it's a pretty apalling read into the guy's mind), what a great example of why you shouldn't keep all your private thoughts online...

He also wrote software that scraped and archived AIM status messages. Apparently he has a long history of scraping content in various forms.

Not to mention the fact that he 'scraped' the idea of the concept of facebook in the first place.

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