All this sensational fb bashing is boring.
What company allows scraping? Most of them play this cat and mouse game.
Digg might have still been alive if they would manage to block it.
The website can also have an influence on many people lives since a lot of people use it as one of their main source of information etc.
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And even under a different definition that would count normal browsing activity, the researchers still aren't doing scraping here. And each user is only collecting a few data points.
As far as I interpret it, only automated scraping is against the ToS:
https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php
> You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.