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Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping

Posted by michael on from the there's-always-a-whiner dept.

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?'"

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  1. paging Jack Valenti by sydlexic · · Score: 5, Funny

    didn't you read the terms of service agreement you were handed at birth (us citizens only) that states any bypassing of ads during receipt of content is theft?

    I'm just waiting for ashcroft's goons to knock on my door, find the tivo and haul my ass off to jail.

    1. Re:paging Jack Valenti by merlyn · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Click Here To Accept Your Life's Conditions: [Agree] [Disagree]"

      {grin}

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    2. Re:paging Jack Valenti by trbogie · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought they were trying to modify that to say that "Having left the womb, you have, by default, accepted the agreements to all life's conditions."

    3. Re:paging Jack Valenti by jon+doh! · · Score: 4, Funny

      a correction of the correction

      "Click Here To Accept Your Life's Conditions: [Agree] [Disagree]"

      (it's greyed out, like the microsoft patch i applied that said "you need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect" and had two buttons, one to reboot now, one to reboot later. the reboot later was greyed out...)

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  2. What falls out the back end of a bull? by Wonko42 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "I've written packages that defeat those silly "enter the word contained in the image" tests..."

    Ahem. Bullshit.