McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 8, 2014 @02:07AM from the but-don't-say-they-didn't-ask dept.

mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes with this excerpt from The Register: "'Intel security subsidiary McAfee may be in hot water after it allegedly scraped thousands of records from the Open Source Vulnerability Database instead of paying for them. The slurp was said to be conducted using fast scripts that rapidly changed the user agent, and was launched after McAfee formally inquired about purchasing a license to the data.' Law experts say the site's copyright could be breached by individuals merely downloading the information in contravention to the site's policies, and did not require the data to be subsequently disseminated."

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Re:Don't see a problem by smooth+wombat · 2014-05-08 02:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Regardless of the legality, it was ethically wrong.

But it's ethically okay for you (not necessarily you personally, but the big You) to take what you want from TPB, not paying the person who created the work for their efforts, right?

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower