On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Pablo Mendes <pablomen...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Maybe we should also consider that companies/universities advising people > (esp. small companies) to publish Linked Data, should give them complete > advice, including protection. If their providers are not able to implement > such simple solutions such as throttling, white/blacklisting, then this a > business opportunity. One could sell Safe Linked Data provision (potentially > including all the WebID goodness) as a package that both shows the beauty > and protects from bad behavior. > Sorry, but if paying for a service is what is required to protect publishers from massive abuse of their resources, then I will personally email every Drupal user account on drupal.org and tell them to turn of RDF module and forget about Linked Data. Fortunately, I think that the Linked Data community can come up with a better way to handle this kind of abuse.
I know this proposal was with the best of intentions, but it simply isn't something I would be willing to stand behind. -Lin