So the argument is that if I getting information off of your non-password protected, completely open web-server and use that information, that is fine. However, if I write a program for a business to find the information, it is wrong but it may not be illegal because the program uses to much resources. Now, if I write a program that intentionally tries to max out your site (e.g. Yahoo) performance it is wrong and considered hacking and the FBI will try to put me in jail.
What is the difference? Intent; having enough lawyers.
The (costly) answer might be to write software that determines the load a user places on a server and block that IP for X time if the load is deemed excessive. Eventually, you could get to the point where you could make the bot look like the load created by a user, then what do you do if that replicate that bot over 1000 IP addresses. The (real) answer: if you offer anything for free, you have to depend on the user to not take advantage of that free service. After all if people acted like businesses there would never be any change in the leave a penny/take a penny cups.
Corporations are inherently evil since their only goal is to make money. The only salvation is to hope that good people run them.
Say what you want about the US government, that is your right if you are a US citizen. I feel that the development of the Internet has done more to champion the cause of freedom throughout the world than any other form of media. And please don't forget, we (the people and the government of the United States) developed the core of Internet. Not the UN or Finland or Italy or even Canada.
God Bless the United States of America
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand
Don't tread on me
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Since .NET is a server side, multi development language solution. It sounds MUCH more like a MS version of PHP (since ASP is dead!) than a Java killer.
Any agreement on this?
So the argument is that if I getting information off of your non-password protected, completely open web-server and use that information, that is fine. However, if I write a program for a business to find the information, it is wrong but it may not be illegal because the program uses to much resources. Now, if I write a program that intentionally tries to max out your site (e.g. Yahoo) performance it is wrong and considered hacking and the FBI will try to put me in jail.
What is the difference? Intent; having enough lawyers.
The (costly) answer might be to write software that determines the load a user places on a server and block that IP for X time if the load is deemed excessive. Eventually, you could get to the point where you could make the bot look like the load created by a user, then what do you do if that replicate that bot over 1000 IP addresses. The (real) answer: if you offer anything for free, you have to depend on the user to not take advantage of that free service. After all if people acted like businesses there would never be any change in the leave a penny/take a penny cups.
Corporations are inherently evil since their only goal is to make money. The only salvation is to hope that good people run them.
Say what you want about the US government, that is your right if you are a US citizen. I feel that the development of the Internet has done more to champion the cause of freedom throughout the world than any other form of media. And please don't forget, we (the people and the government of the United States) developed the core of Internet. Not the UN or Finland or Italy or even Canada. God Bless the United States of America You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand Don't tread on me