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offbeatport • today at 11:41 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

They didn't do it in the intended manner.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.


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Sopel • today at 12:39 PM

> did not respect our robots.txt

I don't see a problem

> ignored our Terms of Service

ban them from the service then and case closed?

> and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only

because it's been proven they have been used commercially?

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