On 8 Feb 2003 at 14:21, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Very interesting threads going on related to "screen scraping" > (basically unauthorized spidering). Worth a read, follow the threads: My understanding wehen I looked at the rules over this issue, was that:
(1) If web content is posted the internet http:// on port 80, there is implicit permission to access it and read it locally. AFAIK deep-linking cases have never gotten off the ground very much, since it is the server's responsibility to redirect if they are coming from somewhere else. (2) You can use whatever agent you want to download it (not just a well-known webbrowser), even agents that strip out ads, replace offensive words with asterisks, whatever you want. If someone wants to see their movie wearing sunglasses so the content they is filtered to a darker color, that is their fair use right. (3) You just cannot redistribute the edited/scraped work without permission. There was a home movie company that is cutting out the violent scenes from movies to sell to families with small kids. I doubt they will survive. More likely, the original content producers will start their own DVD option, so they can sell more copies to viewers who want to watch as a family with small kids. Best wishes, Robert _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
