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dismalaftoday at 2:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Pretty sure it's legal when you do it for your own use (same as browsing a website) but it's illegal to redistribute web scraped results.


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burntetoday at 2:26 PM

It's not that cut and dry or else search engines wouldn't be legal. It depends on how much is used, for what context, etc. This very well may wind up being fair use.

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