just saw that a federal court tossed google's dmca claims against serpapi. the ruling basically says that blocking scrapers from seeing public search results doesn't count as
copyright circumvention on its own. this is huge for anyone relying on
third-party data providers to track rankings. it seems like the court thinks there is a massive difference between stealing content and just
preventing automated access to what is already public. i wonder if this will make google double down on even more aggressive bot detection methods instead of legal routes. do you think this changes how we should approach our own scraping workflows?
full read:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/court-dismisses-googles-dmca-claims-against-serpapi/583033/