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Is scraping and crawling stealing?

Is scraping and crawling stealing?

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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A spat has blown up over the weekend regarding Oodle and Vast.com “scraping” content from 3rd party sites and re-purposing it inside their environments. This essay is my reaction to the spat. As a founder of edgeio I clearly have an interest in the answer to the question. edgeio does not scrape or crawl. All of its content is permission based (published…

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