Is it legal to mine data from a public website? Let's take a detailed look at recent lawsuits and controversies surrounding the practice of web scraping. 

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Booking vs Ryanair https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-wins-its-case-against-travel-giant-booking-com-in-delaware-court-ruling
Copilot Lawsuit Dismissed https://www.infoworld.com/article/2515112/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant.html
Web Scraping Tutorial https://youtu.be/qo_fUjb02ns
GitHub Copilot recent features https://youtu.be/S_RorY_FRvo

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- What is web scraping?
- Is web scraping legal? 
- Lawsuits against data miners
- GitHub copilot lawsuit for using public code
- Can AI tools legally scrape the web?
- How does a robots.txt file work?

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Am I going to jail for web scraping?

doesn’t google crawlers scrape web for profit?

Nowadays, knowing what is legal and what is not is essential.

Tutorial not clear, I’m scraping in jail xDDDD

they can sell your data but you cant scrap the website? Loads of BS. I’m Sure the source of knowledge will be cut off eventually then we will all be SOL.

Is it possible to get a TL;DR for video content here? Summarising the content from closed captions?