> It would almost certainly be a breach of the law in most Western countries.
Twitter already let's you download someone's tweet in a .json file. Are you saying that twitter is almost certainly breaking the law? Or is it something specifically evil with the .zip file?
We're not saying you should "just do with it whatever you like". What they're specifically doing is making it publicly available. Which it already was, because that's the definition of what public means. As the previous poster pointed out.
Public domain is not protected by copyright. Most countries (though not all) explicitly differentiates the laws of what's public and what's copyrighted. Usually, both are mutually exclusive.
Twitter already let's you download someone's tweet in a .json file. Are you saying that twitter is almost certainly breaking the law? Or is it something specifically evil with the .zip file?
We're not saying you should "just do with it whatever you like". What they're specifically doing is making it publicly available. Which it already was, because that's the definition of what public means. As the previous poster pointed out.
Public domain is not protected by copyright. Most countries (though not all) explicitly differentiates the laws of what's public and what's copyrighted. Usually, both are mutually exclusive.