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		akersten on Sept 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website d... And does robots.txt count as an access control? What about a humans.txt that says "please don't scrape this site"?

tempestn on Sept 9, 2019 | [–]

According to the ruling, a cease and desist letter directly demanding that they not scrape the site didn't count as access control, so one would assume that humans.txt wouldn't either. It needs to be a technical prevention like a password, access token, etc.

blackflame7000 on Sept 9, 2019 | [–]

Sounds more like an access suggestion than control to me

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