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So... about a decade ago, a guy was found guilty and convicted to 5 years in jail for unauthorized computer access because he scraped a data from open website (see this for details: https://www.zdnet.com/article/jury-convicts-hacker-over-at-t... ). Can somebody explain to me, why isn't foundation guilty of the same crime? Clearly, they were given an access so that they install a bot, not to take over the project.



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