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Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sort-of-open-data dept.

Bismillah writes "The ABS has released the census data for the country under a Creative Commons license, but instead of making it easy to get, they've put in Javascript to obfuscate file paths and more. All commented in the source code of course." At first glance, it's an attempt to get people to pay $250 for a DVD with the data instead.

2 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Criminals and retarded monkeys by Noir+Angellus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... descended from criminals and retarded monkeys.

    No, we're not all descended from the English let alone Americans.

  2. Re:Bit torrent by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha, I won't visit sites with goat in the name. Fool me once...