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(jeffa) RE: Downloading of © content for personal useby jeffa (Bishop) |
on Sep 02, 2000 at 01:27 UTC ( [id://30811]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
This reminds me of a simlar situation that the last company
I worked for was in. We grabbed item content from several
well established online vendors - some vendors would send
us their item data, but some would refuse to so. For the
ones that refused, well, we got their goods anyways - via
a web bot (and Parse::RecDescent and some queue daemons).
Personally, I see nothing wrong with this, simply because that information was made public by the vendor themselves. You just have to navigate through their web site to get the info - why not have a bot do it for you?
I think the main reason that
But we were all a little concerned that maybe we were stepping over the line of intellectual property. In the end, Vendor X (or any of the other non-participating vendors) never contacted us with a cease and desist warning. I have always been a subscriber to "if someone makes data they own publically available, then it should be publicly maleable" - meaning that bots can grab data and do what every the heck you want to with it - just as long as that data is not copyrighted. If you have to crack a password to get the data, it's not legal. Jeff
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