Yes. The current legal situation with access to online resources is an absolute, unmitigated disaster.<p>My advice to anyone building anything significant off an API or scraped access: do it anonymously. Never reveal your real identity. Never use your real IP. Don&#x27;t process credit cards. Don&#x27;t register an identifiable LLC. Run it out of China or Russia where American companies will have a hell of a time trying to get to you.<p>If you depend on one entity&#x27;s API, that entity is not going acquire you. At best, your product will be ripped off and they&#x27;ll make you irrelevant. This happens to popular mobile applications all the time.<p>At worst, you&#x27;ll get sued civilly, get your wages and bank accounts garnished, lose all of your possessions, and get criminally prosecuted under the CFAA, end up doing some time, and eventually get released with the stipulation that you never touch a computer or access the internet again for the rest of your life.<p>Unless you can ramp up to doing tens of millions of revenue per year (or have investors willing to pony that up) before the company you depend on notices&#x2F;decides they don&#x27;t like you anymore and sends out their law firm, you&#x27;re dead meat, no matter what the details of your case are and no matter how wrong they are.<p>These are not problems you want. It&#x27;s easier to put your service in the onion and run it from there, access all external data via proxy, only accept Bitcoin for payment, and never tell anyone the link to your real-world identity. Granted it takes good opsec to continue this for a long time, which is really hard to pull off, but it may be doable depending on your level of commitment.