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Trying to stop spidering or web scraping or making it criminal is asinine. Do not publish it online. Even if you put content up as Flash or Java applet, someone
by notastartup 13y ago
Trying to stop spidering or web scraping or making it criminal is asinine. Do not publish it online. Even if you put content up as Flash or Java applet, someone will find a way to crawl/scrape it.
This goes against the nature of the internet and information, it is bound to be free.
- logfromblammo 13y agoYou cannot simultaneously publish something and stop people from knowing what it contains. Expecting that you can is absolutely insane--literally insane--as in believing that P and not P can simultaneously have the same logical value. This makes me furious. It isn't because the intent is malicious. That only makes me just a tiny bit angry. I am furious because the malice was implemented in the stupidest, most useless, laziest manner possible. It's like keeping the neighborhood kids off your lawn by burying a pressure plate switch out there for the armed nuclear bomb in your garage. And then not telling anyone about it. And then inviting all the neighbors over for a croquet tournament.