[DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hi Phil,

The data is valuable to the customer who use the company I work for. If the
data is using by someone else, it is a direct competition to the customer
and the company I work for. They ask us to protect the data and I have the
responsibility to do the job.

I put the data into image and it works really nice for around six months
:-) No one bother to grab the data to my best knowledge. :-)

Regards
Leigh


On 4 July 2014 11:14, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:

> Any restriction on scraping can be bypassed with enough effort - even if
> you put data into image. To my mind it is a flawed business model if you
> are trying to sell data that users can browse for free. Amazon isnt
> selling its information about books, it sells the books and no, you
> cannot browse them on the website. Maybe there is equivalent to read
> sample (which only shows you same two pages no matter what ip you use).
>
> The usual annoyance scraping is someone concentrating your data for
> comparison purpose (eg pricespy) so they get advertising revenue instead
> of you. If you are just one of dozens of sites, then you want to make
> cost/reward too high to bother scraping. If this is targeted on only
> your website, and the data you have displayed is intrinsically valuable,
> then good luck.
>
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