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Not that I think you shouldn't do it or you're doing something wrong, but describing it as a right irks me the wrong way. You don't have any right to expect someone else's computers to work for you.



I'm not sure how to phrase it except in terms of competing rights, but I take your point.

At the point where I'm scraping, the data's on my computer though.


You could call them interests .

It's often in a business's interest to format data in a specific way to make money, for example interlacing it with ads.


Nice.




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