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sillysaurus on June 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Youtube claims I don't own my own film

Would you really get arrested in that case? I'm genuinely curious -- I've made a "mirror_website" console command for myself, so I should probably be careful with that if this is true. =)

asto on June 17, 2012 [–]

You would in India where I'm at!

Dove on June 17, 2012 | [–]

I don't know. I'd think in order to DDoS a website you meant to scrape, your scraper would have to involve your botnet.

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