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