On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:48:02AM +0700, Joe Developer wrote: > Really? Generally considered illegal? I would appreciate a link that > documents such a finding. I would imagine that google search results would > be fairly sparsely populated if they could only include those pages that > include explicit permission for google to scrape.
My understanding is that it is a grey area of law, and you are likely to get different answers depending on country, what you are scrapping, what you are using it for, who holds the copyright on the data you are scrapping, who you ask, etc. However scrapping is really ugly, error prone, and needs frequent updating. I would consider these issues more important then the legal issue. Especially as it seems likely that Google will develop a proper API in the future. -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
