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>>Most importantly, the appeals court also upheld a lower court ruling that prohibits LinkedIn from interfering with hiQ’s web scraping of its site. This fundamentally changes the balance of power in dealing with such cases in the future.

This, I don't agree with. I agree that it's not fraud to send a bot to scrape public info but the site should every right to block a bot or person.

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This doesn't sit well with me either. However, LinkedIn are trying to redefine a fundamental principle of the web, i.e. easy access to publicly available information, and they're doing it simply to protect their commercial interests.

It would be terrible to see the web compromised by a spat between two (in my opinion) scummy companies, and I think we could do with some hard push-back against attacks on the web generally.

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