▲ 580 ▼ Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Isn't web scraping copying ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [+] orcrist@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
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