Comment Illegal to mine something publicly available? (Score 1) 240
I understand that mining all the vast quantities of data is wrong ethically, but it can't be illegal, or?
I don't have pretty much any data that would make me overly sad if I lost it, I just haven't been a programmer for long enough.
It's harder to replace 10 computers than a bunch of bash scripts and simple C programs.
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