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FYI LinkedIn actually won that case after appealing once more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

Where do you see that they won the case? Can you provide a source because the wikipedia article directly contradicts what you are saying...?

I see they went to the Supreme Court who kicked it back to the Ninth who then re-affirmed their position that HiQ Labs was not in violation of the CFAA.

From [0] and [1], it seems it was a mixed ruling. I am actually not sure whether it's now legal to scrape, since the Court ruled against hiQ due to a breach of terms of service, but previously the Ninth Circuit Court affirmed its ruling against LinkedIn.

[0] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/court-finds-hiq-breache...

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-...

> The hiQ decisions give a green light, at least in some circumstances, to scraping publicly available websites without fear of liability under the CFAA.

So at a federal level, it seems relatively clear. The only uncertainty is on the state level.

Ah. I was not aware there was an update to that case. TIL.

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