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That's no excuse, there needs to be a stiff penalty for such mistakes. If I ended up automatically DDoSing a site when all I meant to do was scrape, I'd still get arrested right?


Would you really get arrested in that case? I'm genuinely curious -- I've made a "mirror_website" console command for myself, so I should probably be careful with that if this is true. =)


You would in India where I'm at!


I don't know. I'd think in order to DDoS a website you meant to scrape, your scraper would have to involve your botnet.




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