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It's against their ToS. The court is trying to decide what kind of a contract a ToS is. This will have implications for anyone writing software covered under a ToS... and anyone using it.

Screen scraping isn't exclusively about using OCR - it more usually means parsing text content from HTML.

What's the "screen" part of this, though? I guess if you have to render the page fully (execute the JS as well), rather than just parse the returned HTML, that to me is more "screen scraping" vs. "scraping".

No idea where the name came from!

Who says it is? This is about copying alleged proprietary and copyrighted content from a website. The technique used isn't really relevant.