I wrote a script that scraped a white pages website. It basically pulls down the telephone directory listings. I ran it on a small city and was able to run it a

I wrote a script that scraped a white pages website. It basically pulls down the telephone directory listings. I ran it on a small city and was able to run it against smaller cities over and over again. I then gave it to my uncle who ran it against cities with 100,000+ people and they banned his IP. He could run it from another location just fine. The script was really dumb though. It would do searches for names that started with dfh, which I don't know of any names that would start with those letters. But a three consonants name could be 'Schwartz'. The shortest string you could search for was three letters and then you could just page through the pages until you go to the point where there wasn't a new page and you could start the next search. Obviously, if you cleaned it up to run only actual real world three letter combos it might not be detected. You might Google Feist vs Rural[1] as for current case law in the United States. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural