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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. Doesn't our favorite company already do that? by FroMan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera

    Not exactly enforcing you through law, but definitely through little "accidents" like above.

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