Except that, in the digital sense, it's only copied. They now have it, but you didn't lose your assets or money besides the <$0.001 it costs to serve each web page.
> So much craziness to go around.
I agree - I haven't read through the entire thing, but it looks like, instead of saying "you can't scrape", they could implicity give a license to users for personal and business use, but not be allowed the reselling of the data (of course carefully worded to allow the likes of Recruiters and whatnot to do so). It's like trying to argue that the DMCA says you can't create a torrent file of some movie.
Except that, in the digital sense, it's only copied. They now have it, but you didn't lose your assets or money besides the <$0.001 it costs to serve each web page.
> So much craziness to go around.
I agree - I haven't read through the entire thing, but it looks like, instead of saying "you can't scrape", they could implicity give a license to users for personal and business use, but not be allowed the reselling of the data (of course carefully worded to allow the likes of Recruiters and whatnot to do so). It's like trying to argue that the DMCA says you can't create a torrent file of some movie.