I thought it was going to be something like or about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243159 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243159, but rather i

I thought it was going to be something like or about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243159 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243159, but rather it seems that the "scraping" was much more malicious and underhanded when you look at the details such as multiple logins to avoid detection and so much load was put on the server[s] that the website went down. This is a hell of a lot more than just scraping a website like a search engine.