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The shift from "terms-authorized scraping" to "acquisition through licensing agreements" implies a transformation of the data trading model: traditionally, crawler technology was used to scrape public web pages in bulk at extremely low cost but with high legal risk, whereas the licensing model requires negotiating with publishers one by one at higher cost but with clear rights and responsibilities.
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