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What are the actual rules/laws about scraping? I have a few projects I'd like to do that involve scraping but have always been conscious about respecting the host's servers, plus whether private content is copyrighted. But sounds like AI companies don't give a shit lol. If anyone has a good resource on the subject I'd be grateful!

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If you go to a police station and ask them to arrest Amazon for accessing your website too often, will they arrest Amazon, or laugh at you?

While facetious in nature, my point is that people walking around in real brick and mortar locations simply do not care. If you want police to enforce laws, those are the kinds of people that need to care about your problem. Until that occurs, youll have to work around the problem.

Oh, police will happily enforce IP law, if the MPAA or RIAA want them to. You only get a pass if you're a thought leader.

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