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So there's this website that's the 7th in france according to Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR) It's
by jfoucher 12y ago
So there's this website that's the 7th in france according to Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/FR) It's the craigslist of france. They don't have email alerts so I built a web app that does just that.
Then they noticed the traffic from my server (I guess) and blocked my IP from scraping their site, making the app basically useless, so I just forgot about it.
Now they are telling that I'm using their trademark in a way that can make users confuse my service with theirs, that according to their TOS I can't event link to their website without authorization (am I even bound by their TOS if I don't use their website?) and so on and so forth.
It was just a side project for me, so I don't mind dropping it.
The source code is on Github though if anyone is interested (https://github.com/jfoucher/lebonmail https://github.com/jfoucher/lebonmail)
- ekianjo 12y agoUse proxies.
- alistairjcbrown 12y agoThat's a bad idea - doing that shows intent to circumvent an intended block. See the last notable case "Craigslist v. 3Taps": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#Notable_cases_and_decisions_referring_to_the_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#No...
- wukerplank 12y agoI'm not sure if this is applicable to French/European law. Nevertheless: If somebody doesn't want you to scrape, don't do it.
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