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There does seem to be some distinction if you log into and scrape:

"Only three claims remained for the final order - the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, violation of the CFAA and California Penal Code.

The district court then granted summary judgment to Facebook on all three of the remaining Facebook claims. The district court awarded statutory damages of $3,031,350"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....



That’s completely different though as they are scraping private info that’s proprietary to Facebook.

I think there’s no grey area for whether scraping publicly available data is legal as it is legal.




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