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		nitrogen on Oct 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles IMDB was originally crowdsourced, wasn't it?

JustSomeNobody on Oct 14, 2019 | [–]

So, have the data available. But I see no reason why they should have to go out of their way to change their site to make it easy for someone to get it.

bewuethr on Oct 13, 2019 | [–]

It started as lists and shell scripts to query them in the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.

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