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Great. So in a business that makes money primarily by collecting and selling user data, they're now required to give it away for free.

• chalst 9y ago
  Correction: user-generated data. LI get the content from their users for free.
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  • vntok 9y ago
    I dont understand how you came to think that. What about the cost of hosting and serving the html forms (cpu and bandwidth), processing the content update requests, storing the resulting data structures? What about the marketing costs of making the brand known both by individuals and companies? The wages associated to any of the operations i have just mentioned? What definition of "free" are you using here?
    • fastier 9y ago
      I agree there seems to be a problems with means and investments: if I invest to create a website with valuable data, and anyone can come and scrape my data and start their own or a competing business, riding on top of my investment, isn't that a disincentive to me?