In your country web crawling can send you to jail?

Not that I know of?

Depends. If you crawl the deep web maybe

@alexbrooklyn I just discovered that are some cases in court in Brazil. Apparently some people don't like you running scripts in their platforms. This make sense but is concerning.

Makes no sense if all content is publicly available. It is another story if this is some sort of copyrighted content and you’re using it for business purposes.

@jotamontecino I heard about it too

@PappyHans I think some judges interpreted it as a hack attack

Hard to see it itself as a crime. Maybe if it's used as an attempt of some other crime.

Depends on the judge. There have been cases where people were sued for illegally accessing "secret" data that has been publicly available on a webserver, but with no links from anywhere.

For some people that technical stuff is what in germany is called #Neuland (#VirginTerritory), a term introduced by our beloved and indecisive sovereign Angela Merkel, who claimed in 2013 that the internet is such a new technology and endangers our way of living.

@ddephor Politicians... don't you love them? But seriously, this is the kind of thing that frighten me: idiots with power.

@jorgeMachado Idiots get the power, because the intelligent people are too busy doing things that matter.

That's our world today.