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Are we doing crimes when scrapping data online? For example public available music? (jeferson.me)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I'm trying to get to a reason on this, but my point reach to a limit.

I've the feels that scraping the internet for public accessible data, like for example open and public music on Spotify wouldn't be a crime, but the distribution would be. At the same token, this is seem as a crime, while Google does the same and nothing happens, even worse, if this get regulated, Google would have a huge advantage on anyone else.

So, my deeper question is: "Is copyright dead?"

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago

no, in almost all cases internet piracy is not a crime. it is a civil issue. now if you were scraping information that wasn't public, that could be a crime depending on the circumstances.

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