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A lot of the outrage isn't at scraping, it is at the disruptive techniques used to do so. Like web-scraping whole websites that already provide convenient images of their content for download.


Feels like now we're just redefining our rules so that the people we don't like are out and the people we like are in. Does the content creator have the right to determine how their work is used or not?


I have a right to my copyrighted work, and I also have a right to set and enforce access rules to a server I operate to grant people access to it.




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