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JUDGE BLOCKS GOOGLE'S DMCA DEFENSE AGAINST SCRAPING

A federal judge rejected Google's attempt to invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its services from being scraped. The ruling clarifies that DMCA protections do not extend to blocking automated access for data harvesting.

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