Comment by djoldman
5 hours ago
This one made me chuckle:
> This breaks my students’ brains. If it’s so ubiquitous, it must be clearly legal…right?
Do they not drive? Driving slightly faster than the speed limit is ubiquitous in my experience.
5 hours ago
This one made me chuckle:
> This breaks my students’ brains. If it’s so ubiquitous, it must be clearly legal…right?
Do they not drive? Driving slightly faster than the speed limit is ubiquitous in my experience.
I'll guess you are from living in the USA
In other countries going over the speed limit a small amount will get you fined and your license suspended if you do it by enough or often.
People in countries like Australia have to warn US visitors that they have to keep below the speed limit
Well, as he goes on to say, a scraping campaign must (based on current law, anyway) satisfy a fairly specific list of constraints to be considered unambiguously legal. That's where the "not clearly legal" idea comes in; I can only imagine that law students would have trouble parsing the idea that a massive tech company with billions of dollars would fail to spend even a little bit of that to evaluate whether or not their scraping was legal and just... do it anyway.
This is a feature not a bug in the system. But for a lot of idealistic young law students learning that will make them deeply uncomfortable
Ask a cop pulling you over if it's a feature as he writes you a ticket lmao.
It certainly is to the cop. How else could they do a pretext stop?
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