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I'm not the person you're responding to, but I would say unequivocally and unironically, yes! The end result is more competition, lower prices, and more options
by strgcmc 5y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I would say unequivocally and unironically, yes! The end result is more competition, lower prices, and more options for the end consumer. Sure the raw idea of this mechanism is a little naive and could be refined, but the outcomes you paint sound totally reasonable to me... think of this as a creative way to apply a new kind of tax to the criminally undertaxed big tech behemoths like Amazon and Google.
- kapp_in_life 5y agoYou are allowed to do that(as far as I understand scraping legality), but google/amazon/facebook are also well within their rights to blacklist your IPs, or implement other methods to prevent scraping of their IP(intellectual property in this case).
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- warkdarrior 5y agoIf you come up with a cool service on top of Amazon's API, should Amazon be allowed to use your APIs to scrape your service data and use it in their offering?
- squeaky-clean 5y agoIf you get above <threshold> users, sure why not? It doesn't have to be free, maybe some sort of auditing service could determine a "fair" price. But it would be open without the possibility of shutting it down in the future unless maybe Amazon themselves ditches that API internally.