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Hi everyone, Eric from PadMapper here, thanks for all the comments! To everyone saying that this is lifting their content, I disagree - it makes a summary of t
by ericd 14y ago
Hi everyone, Eric from PadMapper here, thanks for all the comments!
To everyone saying that this is lifting their content, I disagree - it makes a summary of the content and then points back to the original. If I wanted to lift their stuff, I would have made separate pages that laid things out better than the original. Literally none of the text except the title and location string make it into the summary.
It's not a copyright issue, their main legal beef is that it's against their TOU for anything but general search engines to index their content - no vertical ones allowed. Who knows what their actual motivation is.
- MichaelApproved 14y agoDo you think they're shutting you down in preparation of creating their own version of pad paper an releasing that without your competition?
- ericd 14y agoIt's possible, they've been looking for a dev with maps experience for a while.
- minouye 14y agoSerious question: Do you think CL would actually follow through with a lawsuit? It seems like they fire off C&D's all the time, but I have yet to see serious follow through.
- ericd 14y agoNo idea, but I've done a little bit of looking, and they have a history of attacking pretty aggressively, at least against things that auto-post. Those are mostly tools for spammers, though, so who knows if they'd come after me.
- gleb 14y agoI don't think you are bound by their TOS simply by indexing their site. Whether it makes business sense to test this legal theory is a wholly different question.
- ericd 14y agoDunno, I guess my servers are accessing theirs? There are other ways to get the data, but yeah, I don't really want to piss them off. Was much nicer when I thought they were OK with this kind of thing from Craig's quora comments.
- matznerd 14y agoGood ol CLAD!