hiQ was found to be in violation of the User Agreement in the end.
Basically, in the end, it was essentially a breach of contract.
Basically, in the end, it was essentially a breach of contract.
hiQ's public scraping was found to be legal. It was the logged-in scraping that was the problem.
The logged-in scraping was a breach of contract, as you said.
The former is fine; the latter is not.
What OpenAI is doing here is the former, which companies are perfectly within their rights to do.