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		francasso on Jan 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) So, if company sells a product based on scraping google search results, google trying to block scraping would constitute "malicious interference with a contract"?

icedchai on Jan 29, 2020 | [–]

This is interesting to to think about, considering Google gets its own results from scraping...

papln on Jan 29, 2020 | [–]

Per hiQ's arugment, but not per any existing ocourt decision.

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