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Check whether you would be violating the Terms of Use of the competitor's product (e.g. by screen-scraping their site). Of course, if you are small you are less
by Edinburger 17y ago
Check whether you would be violating the Terms of Use of the competitor's product (e.g. by screen-scraping their site). Of course, if you are small you are less likely to be sued so you might want to take the risk.
- jacquesm 17y agoYou know what, if that would be in their 'terms of service' then they can go jump of a cliff. To lock in your users data may be in your terms of service but that does not mean it will stand up in court. Portability is pretty much a given, whether you're the phone company or a web site it should not matter. Any website that wants to play nice opens up their users contents at their request and competes on quality, not lock in to make sure as few users as possible make use of it.
- falien 17y ago"To lock in your users data may be in your terms of service but that does not mean it will stand up in court. Portability is pretty much a given..." It is a given in terms of best practices in various regards, but not in law (at least not in the US or other jurisdictions with similar IP frameworks).
- run4yourlives 17y agoI'd be willing to bet it is, given 10 years or so.
- callmeed 17y agoWell, every one of their customers' sites has an exposed data file. So, I would just be taking their URL and reading the data. Then, I'd just parse it and drop it in to our product (as well as copying images over, but those images belong to the customer).