Am I going to jail for web scraping?

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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🔖 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