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"I would have some sympathy with this if you made it easy for single people to pay you to be able to use your data in a manner outside of the ToS of the free AP

• Mithaldu 13y ago
  Occam's Razor makes me think that Google simply does not want to "bother" with many low-value customers, associated support infrastructure, etc. Honest curiosity though: What kind of contract would make it impossible and would one make such a contract?
  • fpgeek 13y ago
    An upstream contract that required detailed information about paid users, for instance? I could imagine wanting information like that for auditing if there were complex restrictions on permissible resale of the upstream data.
  • DannyBee 13y ago
    "Honest curiosity though: What kind of contract would make it impossible and would one make such a contract? " Most of them :) They often have requirements on downstream users, such as requiring we provide info about them, or that they be restricted to certain use cases, etc There are a lot of ridiculous restrictions i've seen in my days. Most data brokers don't really want customers to go through you to get "close to bare data". Thus, they give onerous contracts, and restrict how you can sublicense the data, as well as usually requiring attribution, in the hopes that people will see your restrictions, see the attribution, and buy the data from them instead.