[penguicon-general] anyone out there know....??

[Steven M Campbell]

Lady Sarah wrote:
> Oh, the other company is getting an FTP feed from us.  However, they are
> required to take all possible steps to prevent others from scraping our
> data off their site.  This is why our board decided there should be a
> limit on the number of listings returned per search; their theory was if
> you had to return to a search page and enter new criteria to get more
> listings the data would not be anywhere near as likely to be scraped.
> 
> If we are completely off base with this, please let me know because it
> could change everything!
> Sarah
> 

Okay, I get it.  He gets data from you and delivers that data to other
folks via a web page.  Your contract with him says "You will not show
more than 250 -widgets- per web page". He's telling you that, because he
uses Ajax that I (playing the bad guy thief) could not scrape the data
off of his screen.

If the above paragraph is accurate then, to this, I yell a resounding
"BULLSHIT".  Point me at a URL and  I'll give you the data off of it.
Even 'Captcha' (those funny distorted codes they have you type back into
web pages) which is designed to specifically stop folks from reading it
is defeated and reworked constantly.  Ajax isn't designed to stop anyone
from getting data off the page, it's quite obliging in fact.  He need to
honor the agreement or renegotiate (how much do you think they should
pay for 300 -widgets- per page <g>).