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It’s an “old” law that did not consider many intricacies of internet and the platforms that exist on it and it’s mostly made obsolete by EU case law, which has shrunk the definition of a protected database under this law so much that it’s practically inapplicable to web scraping.

(Not my opinion. I visited a major global law firm’s seminar on this topic a month ago and this is what they said.)