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When Mario Zechner, an Austrian hacker, built a tool to scrape grocery store prices - discovering clear evidence of price-fixing conspiracies in the process - he was attacked by the grocery cartel for violating their "IP rights":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

This is Wilhoit's Law in action:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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