Web Scraping, legal or not ?

[jay23]

If you scrape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping) some once site , is it legal or illegal ?

One guy spent 3 months in Pen for it.

http://60733066.blogspot.com/2007/03...ackground.html

Some adult company get into issue with Facebook right.

[James124]

google is one huge scraper site.

[DaddyHalbucks]

Depends on who you are.

[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by James124

google is one huge scraper site.

biggest!

[GatorB]

I copied a directory of physicians from a member association website using a handful of member logins I had acquired.

A little more than just "web scraping"

[Davy]

illegal.

[jay23]

Originally Posted by James124

google is one huge scraper site.

Google can getaway from it since its a search engine.

[gnet]

Specifically, I copied a directory of physicians from a member association website using a handful of member logins I had acquired.

That's not scraping.

[sarettah]

Yeah, it would appear that he did a bit more than just scraping a site.

http://www.businessgreen.com/vnunet/...faces-jail-75m

US database hacker faces jail and $2.75m fine
North Carolina man accused of stealing American College of Physicians member list

Robert Jaques, vnunet.com, 25 Jul 2006
A US man is accused of hacking into a physicians membership database
A US man has been charged with stealing the membership database held at the American College of Physicians (ACP) in Philadelphia.

William Bailey Jr, of North Carolina, faces a maximum 55 years in jail and a $2.75m fine if found guilty of illegally accessing the database and downloading the contact details of 80,000 members.

Bailey, 46, runs a website called dr-411.com which sells professional organisation member databases, including home addresses and email details for doctors, dentists, lawyers and estate agents.

IT security firm Sophos reported that Bailey's website, which is currently not active, contained adverts for email databases, one of which read: 'Physician Email Database 20,350 emails for $399'.

It is alleged that Bailey ignored the following warning message on the ACP's website and accessed the member database:

''Member Connection' or any of its data or listings may not be downloaded, republished, resold or duplicated, in whole or in part, for commercial or any other purposes, or for purposes of compiling mailing lists or any other lists of physicians. The use of 'Member Connection' to establish independent data files or compendiums of statistical information is prohibited. Should the foregoing terms and conditions be acceptable to you, please indicate your agreement and acceptance by clicking below on the button labeled ''I accept'.'

US Attorney General Pat Meehan said that the ACP contacted the FBI National Computer Crime Squad immediately.

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[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by jay23

Google can getaway from it since its a search engine.

translation: depends how you package the results...