I'm surprised Amazon's legal team signed off on this. It's clearly against the GitHub terms of service[0], and Amazon employees acting on the instructions from Amazon had to approve those terms. It seems pretty much identical to the LinkedIn vs. hiQ scraping case, where as I understand the fake account creation was the key point.
[0] E.g. no API key sharing for the purposes of evading rate limits, only a single free account per person or organization.
When you pay your legal teams as much as Amazons, they probably tell you "Yeah, you'd probably lose any case, but the fine will be a couple of million dollars and you won't have to pay it for a decade, and by then you'd have cemented your market leadership".
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I'm surprised Amazon's legal team signed off on this. It's clearly against the GitHub terms of service[0], and Amazon employees acting on the instructions from Amazon had to approve those terms. It seems pretty much identical to the LinkedIn vs. hiQ scraping case, where as I understand the fake account creation was the key point.
[0] E.g. no API key sharing for the purposes of evading rate limits, only a single free account per person or organization.
When you pay your legal teams as much as Amazons, they probably tell you "Yeah, you'd probably lose any case, but the fine will be a couple of million dollars and you won't have to pay it for a decade, and by then you'd have cemented your market leadership".
What if they‘re not free accounts?