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Let me get this straight - they paid a company to scrape data for them, and then sued them for scraping their own data as well?


That is oversimplified. They are against scraping things that against a site's terms.

"The collection of data from websites can serve legitimate integrity and commercial purposes, if done lawfully and in accordance with those websites’ terms"




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