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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)

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[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Isn't web scraping copying ?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 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.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I think that depends how you write your web scraper. Of course the web scraper is going to load the page, just like your web browser does, which by all accounts is not an issue. What happens after the page is loaded depends on how the software is written.