Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt To DMCA Its Way Out Of Being Scraped
from the pulling-up-the-ladder dept
Back in December we called out Google for filing a DMCA 1201 lawsuit over companies scraping Google’s results. Almost everything about the lawsuit seemed problematic, not the least of which is that Google’s entire business was built on scraping the web. To sue another company for scraping Google just felt… obnoxious. And now a judge has dismissed the lawsuit, though leaving it open for Google to refile.
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