Do you know of any good articles demonstrating the repercussions of violating a ToS vs. violating a copyright?

I'm guessing violating a copyright is more likely to result in aggressive legal action whereas a ToS violation would just get you banned from the service or sent some sort of cease and desist.

yeah its a bit of a grey area I suspect that the big players don't want to be the first one to start legal proceedings - they want some one else to pull the trigger.

I used to work for Reed Elsevier and there was rampant scrapeing and plagiarizing going on usually to create crappy MFA sites or to insert middlemen (offering no social value) into the job board market.

I possibly could see EU based recruitment companies going after indeed - maybe if stepstone are up for a fight.

Matt Cutts whats the deal on allowing indeeds search results into your index I thought you did not like other se results in Googles index

it's up for me in Boston

I wonder if this is part of David Marcus' plan to "radically change" paypal and "earn your trust again"...

http://ndy.gd/JJgB

edit: added trust quote.

It's interesting in contrast to the way Microsoft does it, as explained by grellas here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4460843

They're similarly restricting class action suits, but doing so in a way that comes off as quite generous.

Well, class action suits itself are not free of problems.

They're not, but they're a solution to a basic structural problem in the law. In countries like the US that depend on private suits to accomplish what in some other countries would be done through government enforcement actions, it becomes possible to profit by screwing over a large number of people for a small amount each. If that amount is less than a threshold, it becomes unprofitable to litigate, and only a few such claims will be brought, far less than the actual damages caused by the company.