Parts of today’s online business and technology market rely on operating websites with two characteristics:  (1) making access to data available to the general public and (2) protecting that data from web scraping.  Website owners and web scrapers will want to watch hi’Q Labs’ litigation against LinkedIn Corp. to see if these two characteristics are, in fact, compatible, something placed in doubt by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.