I guess that this relates in some way to cases where newspapers complain about companies like Google indexing their sites and effectively repackaging their news stories - and where violating terms of service (civil issue) crosses into unauthorised access (criminal issue).
It all comes down to what precisely am I allowed to do with a publicly available web page? I'm allowed to use a web browser to access it (presumably), but when does something stop being a web browser and start being an automated tool? I'm not familiar with the tool in question here, but could it be argued that in some ways it's no different than a web browser that pre-fetches linked content?
It all comes down to what precisely am I allowed to do with a publicly available web page? I'm allowed to use a web browser to access it (presumably), but when does something stop being a web browser and start being an automated tool? I'm not familiar with the tool in question here, but could it be argued that in some ways it's no different than a web browser that pre-fetches linked content?