A small Chrome extension got the attention of a large media conglomerate (medium.com)

3 points by isiahl 6y ago ↗ HN

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A recent US court decision may be of help: https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scr...

I actually discuss this court case at the end of the post!

We need a legal precedent stating that programmatically accessing public data is not illegal nor considered copyright infringement. If a user can access the data directly (whether for free or by paying the original service and getting an account) then they should be allowed to delegate that task to software.