Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Is it legal to mine data from a public website? Let's take a detailed look at recent lawsuits and controversies surrounding the practice of web scraping.

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Booking vs Ryanair corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-wins-its-case-against-travel-giant-booking-com-in-delaware-court-ruling
Copilot Lawsuit Dismissed infoworld.com/article/2515112/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant.html
Web Scraping Tutorial youtu.be/qo_fUjb02ns
GitHub Copilot recent features youtu.be/S_RorY_FRvo

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🔖 Topics Covered

- What is web scraping?
- Is web scraping legal?
- Lawsuits against data miners
- GitHub copilot lawsuit for using public code
- Can AI tools legally scrape the web?
- How does a robots.txt file work?