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That may be a CFAA violation, a felony in the United States. See Ryanair DAC v. Booking Holdings, Inc.

That's because Booking was also committing some type of misrepresentation and taking revenue away from Ryanair through their browser automation. Even then, the infraction was sooo bad that they got a $5k fine.

I think the hiQ Labs vs LinkedIn case is a better representation that scraping is generally allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

When it comes to CFAA violations, corporations get a $5K fine, while individuals get hounded to suicide.

Start a company then do my nefarious work under that, got it!

You should do ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in your life under a company. And I mean EVERYTHING

My wife hates it when 1099 her for services rendered, especially since she refuses to bill against the PO I set up for her. The kids at least accepted NET15 payment terms. Although the oldest said if I short pay him for lawn care again, he’s going to take away my early pay discount.

Have you considered short paying him again through the same entity? After all, that's one use case of limited liability ;)

Kafka is smiling appreciatively at your approach to marriage

corporations are more people than people.

Unironically, yes.

How does that work, though? Setting up a company has an initial cost and then recurrent costs (accountant, etc). Are the benefits that high for the average Joe?

It's hard to answer without specifics, even if you're not doing anything neferious there are a lot of benefits to putting an entity between yourself and your customers. It depends on where you live and what your business is of course.

> In November 2022 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties.

Reminder that the earlier ruling was overturned, it is no longer clear whether scraping is legal or not.

Just say you train an AI on it and it's all fair game.

Good thing I am not an American, don't live in the US and have no intentions of visiting then.

(I gave you an upvote, I don't think your comment deserve to be nuked for bringing up a possible legal risk)

Very Probably No way they could find me.

This literally made me lol. Not sure if it’s true. I might be true. But come on!

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