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Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping

Yro · Programming · 2003-02-07 08:18 · posted by michael · from the there's-always-a-whiner dept. · 432 comments

wilko11 writes "There have been two cases recently where websites have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be used to access the websites (EuroTV and Streetmap) from a PERL program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads about EuroTV and about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software you can use to access web content from their server?'"