Google lost a scraping case, and HN noticed the historical irony (techdirt.com)
The ruling concerned Google’s attempt to stop scraping through a DMCA theory. Readers saw a narrower legal loss and a broader market signal about access to results after affordable official APIs have become scarce.
The thread’s strongest refrain was not that scraping is consequence-free. It was that restricting the interface while leaving demand intact invites exactly the intermediaries Google is suing.
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