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Anticircumvention Law is Not the Right Solution to Webscraping
In the webscraping cases now pending, courts should focus their analysis on whether there has been actual harm to the plaintiffs’ web infrastructures, instead of allowing digital platforms absolute control via ToS or TPMs.
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