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For some companies though, it's about protecting IP, e.g. * Google wants to stop scraping so that you can't build a competing search engine that just scrapes G
by tuckerman 11y ago
For some companies though, it's about protecting IP, e.g.
* Google wants to stop scraping so that you can't build a competing search engine that just scrapes Google for every search term that you see.
* LinkedIn has an amazing database of user information, you wouldn't want someone scraping all of it and creating LinkedIn2.
* One of the reasons Quora exists is that there are a lot of opportunities in mining the answers; they don't want another company to get to piggy-back on their hard work creating the site, acquiring users, making a good UI, paying for hosting etc.
- tommorris 11y agoSo it's basically for DRM.
- davelnewton 11y agoI think DRM is part of what this attempts to protect against, but that's certainly not the only use. It's still potentially onerous, since I regularly write agents that pull info from various places, for personal use, research, and archiving.