alt Hacker NewsSo they crawled the web, stole the information to populate their own database and then pretend it was "illegal" for others to steal it back?
The weird attitude in the Internet Tech company scene is akin to Gold Rush scenarios.
Who are the native people?
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slowpoison • yesterday at 7:17 PM
Don't think it's unreasonable. They crawled it and made it available in an easy to digest form. You can't take their copy and start distributing it infinitely while paying them for one-time read. Write your crawler, and crawl the web on your own if you want... and give it away!
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strbean • yesterday at 11:33 PM
> Who are the native people?
Geocities and vBulletin users!
measurablefunc • yesterday at 5:22 PM
The data is the moat, the compute is a cost center.
DANmode • yesterday at 7:41 PM
“You're looking at 'em...”
- Tony Soprano
> So they crawled the web, stole the information to populate their own database and then pretend it was "illegal" for others to steal it back?
These days, this seems to be "modus operandi". The bet is who can get closer to the administration to suddenly enforce the un-enforce-able. For your own safety. You wouldn't steal a car now, would you?