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I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here.

please argue. please do not remove.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They've given you knowledge/ material in their possession free of charge.

this is a very common human activity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You asked if it's moral, this is irrelevant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You asked if it’s moral

I did not

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The original post in this chain talked about ethics, I was continuing that conversation.

In terms of free use, I feel the collection/aggregation of the data is a work in itself. You are taking a greater portion than the author specified you can take. Courts have ruled this does not constitute free use when people used yahoo's market data. How is it any different now when people are using orders of magnitudes more data.