>I would expect that a company like Google is able to find partners, but if not, there's always screen scraping. They can shut that down with laws banning the

>I would expect that a company like Google is able to find partners, but if not, there's always screen scraping. They can shut that down with laws banning the practice. It might not stop someone working on a personal project, but it would prevent any significant company from offering any kind of paid product or service using screen-scraping. In fact, it might already be forbidden just by ToS.