Someone should do this, scrape everything Microsoft (don't forget MSN news), then create an online chat bot trained on all their data. Tout it all over the web. Then sit back and watch how quickly Microsoft moves to get it taken down.
> "There's a separate category where a website or publisher or news organization had explicitly said, 'do not scrape or crawl me for any other reason than indexing me,' so that other people can find that content," he explained. "But that's the gray area. And I think that's going to work its way through the courts."
I don't think you'd be breaking the law doing that. As long as you don't reproduce any of the MS-owned material in your output. Data isn't protected by copyright (in the US at least), so your AI could extract the knowledge from some text and present it in its own different way.
> As long as you don't reproduce any of the MS-owned material in your output.
That is exactly what you should be doing to call them out on their bullshit. From the article:
> "I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use," he opined. "Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That's been the understanding."
Which means that from their logic you can just copy their content and reproduce it.
Sheer hypocrisy.