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		cma on Aug 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US court rules masking IP address to access blocke... So you're saying google could send a cease and desist to all microsoft employees and keep them off of google.com? Isn't the ruling considering automated scraping in some way different from normal browsing?

lelandbatey on Aug 22, 2013 [–]

Yes, Google could in fact do that. It would be impossible to actually enforce, but they could absolutely do it.

They don't have any reason to, so they don't, but they could.

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