Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
&gt;good bots<p>You mean, bots that obey robots.txt?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;robots.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;robots.txt</a> very specifically prohibits scraping  by any bot besides a small whitelist.<p>robots.txt compliance is not difficult to build. I&#x27;m fine with robots.txt violations being considered hacking.