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You can be sued for crossing the street. You can be sued for flipping the bird and someone happens to get aneurism from it. You can be sued for writing what you just wrote!


Yes, but if you fight it adequately, you won't lose. If you get sued for scraping, it's quite likely you'll lose, as the law has numerous pitfalls for scrapers, including things as basic as regarding RAM copies as infringing.




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