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

[Lady Sarah]

Thanks, Steven!

That's really rather what I thought.

Sarah

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Steven M Campbell
<Penguicon at scampbell.net>wrote:

> 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>).
>
>
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