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Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't web scraping copying ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

No. It's only illegal if you republish what you scrape. Absolutely nothing prevents any company from scraping the web and using that information internally.