At Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:23:09 -0700,
Nate Hill wrote:
>
> A question: what are the 'rules' around screen scraping?
> If one site doesn't offer an RSS feed and you want to grab (for example)
> their weekly top ten list with a script and then redisplay it on another
> site, is that bad form?  Or even illegal?

A timely question:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/02/1437207/canadian-court-finds-website-scraping-infringes-copyright

best, Erik



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