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Well the problem is when someone scrapes ALL the good listings then pre-purchases them for resale at double the cost.
by ben_jones 10y ago
Well the problem is when someone scrapes ALL the good listings then pre-purchases them for resale at double the cost.
- Raphmedia 10y agoHow is it different than paying 50+ low-wage remote workers to "scrape" the phonebook for you and then using the information acquired for profit?
- greglindahl 10y agoOne difference is that Feist v. Rural Telephone says that the data in a phonebook can't be copyrighted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
- Raphmedia 10y agoWhat about using those employees to "crawl" the web for you then?
- greglindahl 10y agoI suspect it's roughly the same as a crawer -- same issues of fair use, TOS/CFAA, etc -- but likely there's no expectation that humans will read and follow robots.txt.