Comment by randyrand
2 months ago
google will lose, and I'm surprised they are even trying. hiQ v. LinkedIn already settled this: scraping public web pages isn’t “unauthorized access,” even if the site says no via robots.txt or ToS. Those aren’t locks.
In Germany, this was also already ruled lawful by the highest court (in the context of plane ticket prices scraping).
HiQ lost on appeal, Microsoft won
No, it's more complicated than that: https://www.morganlewis.com/blogs/sourcingatmorganlewis/2022...
The short answer is that scraping isn't a CFAA offence but might be a terms and conditions violation, depending on the specifics of the access.
Incorrect. OP's view is present day 9th Circuit precedent.