LinkedIn serves pages containing their users' info, and users are made aware of this. These pages require no authentication, presumably because they're a marketing tool. People built scrapers to obtain that public info. LinkedIn said that was illegal, the court says it isn't.
I don't see who loses here, other than LinkedIn and other sites that want the benefits of listing information without the downsides.
LinkedIn serves pages containing their users' info, and users are made aware of this. These pages require no authentication, presumably because they're a marketing tool. People built scrapers to obtain that public info. LinkedIn said that was illegal, the court says it isn't.
I don't see who loses here, other than LinkedIn and other sites that want the benefits of listing information without the downsides.