Blogger Robert Scoble, former Microsoft MVP, then Microsoft employee, ran a screen-scraping script to lift 5,000 names, email addresses, and birthdates off Facebook. They noticed and banned him for breach of their terms of use. Read his blog.

After an outcry of many bloggers, Facebook reinstated his account.

The discussion is still going on. Dennis Howlett asks on ZDnet whether Scoble broke EU law.