Well, it's pretty simple to legally dodge these kinds of threats.
If you scrape regularly, then pick up a dozen or more machines around the world, in less than friendly areas to US law. Pay with a rechargeable credit card or bitcoin. And the buy servers and set up a hadoop cluster that handles scan-jobs.
The worst case scenario is that LinkedIN, YELP, and others get some of your servers shut down. Wash, rinse, repeat.
EDIT: please note, this was only a thought-game to bypass rude and destructive laws like the CFAA, which weaponizes TOS'ses, EULA's, and other implicit contracts of adhesion (as in, you have to agree to see). Ideally, we would be better off with both these laws to have a sane scope, and for companies to not expect things to happen with content in public.
You're too technical, feels like.
Usually it's done in even simpler way - you have 3rd party provider from one of this countries (or who aggregates data from you), who does all scrapping and data cleaning for you for reasonable price.
If you scrape regularly, then pick up a dozen or more machines around the world, in less than friendly areas to US law. Pay with a rechargeable credit card or bitcoin. And the buy servers and set up a hadoop cluster that handles scan-jobs.
The worst case scenario is that LinkedIN, YELP, and others get some of your servers shut down. Wash, rinse, repeat.
EDIT: please note, this was only a thought-game to bypass rude and destructive laws like the CFAA, which weaponizes TOS'ses, EULA's, and other implicit contracts of adhesion (as in, you have to agree to see). Ideally, we would be better off with both these laws to have a sane scope, and for companies to not expect things to happen with content in public.