It's more like a store putting up a no shoes no shirt no service sign and then trying to sue for trespass when a beachgoer comes in to shop anyway. LinkedIn is a business with publicly accessible assets they want to be frequented, but they want to control how you do that. However they are finding the laws regulating the rights people have in respect to frequenting places open to the public apply.
jep.
it's more like having a public store and only letting some people into it. like only males, no womans.
because they clearly allowed the google bot.
More like only letting humans into it, and only one type of robot, the googlebot. Then this company is ignoring the posted rules and sending armies of robots into the store to photograph every square inch of the business.
Well I'm sorry, but if I opt to wrap a cURL call in a bash for loop, I'm still a human that tries to access the same resources, only with a different user agent.
There is legitimate individual interest in both scraping and non-browser HTTP sessions.
