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		55555 on Oct 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles > This seems to mean LinkedIn can't sue to prevent scraping. Zillow and similar companies have shut down numerous startups which relied on scraping their data. How is this different?

paxys on Oct 14, 2019 [–]

LinkedIn data is provided freely by its users. MLS, on the other hand (which Zillow and all other such sites/agents get their data from), is a private database.

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