They didn't do it in the intended manner.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.

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Sopel an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> did not respect our robots.txt

I don't see a problem

> ignored our Terms of Service

ban them from the service then and case closed?

> and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only

because it's been proven they have been used commercially?

	▲	trollbridge an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I do. It's wrong to ignore a robots.txt. The fact someone else may have licenced content for commercial use doesn't entitle someone else to do the same without paying for it. That's the whole point of copyright law.

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