> a service exposes some capability without authentication, ergo you're authorized to use it
How is this different from scraping publicly available websites? i.e. why would you get in trouble for one, but not the other?
How is this different from scraping publicly available websites? i.e. why would you get in trouble for one, but not the other?
Big companies with deep pockets will even bankrupt other companies this way. For an example, look at how Sony sued playstation emulator companies over the most bullshit claims possible, got an injunction, killed their profits and then it didn't matter that they lost in court afterwards. In my country, the judge would have estimated the profits the smaller player lost as a result of Sony's frivolous lawsuit and forced them to pay it all back on top of the legal fees.
In short, who's getting put out of business for redisplay or derived data uses of publicly available data?