“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Ars Technica Ashley Belanger
Google sued web scraper SerpApi under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for circumventing anti-scraping protections and reselling Google search results through an unauthorized API service. A court ruled against Google last week, rejecting its claim that SerpApi violated anti-circumvention rules. The decision means scraping services can continue operating and may embolden others to extract data from Google and other platforms despite contractual prohibitions.
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