<div dir="ltr">Hi Phil,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Leigh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 July 2014 11:14, Phil Scadden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz" target="_blank">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Any restriction on scraping can be bypassed with enough effort - even if<br>
you put data into image. To my mind it is a flawed business model if you<br>
are trying to sell data that users can browse for free. Amazon isnt<br>
selling its information about books, it sells the books and no, you<br>
cannot browse them on the website. Maybe there is equivalent to read<br>
sample (which only shows you same two pages no matter what ip you use).<br>
<br>
The usual annoyance scraping is someone concentrating your data for<br>
comparison purpose (eg pricespy) so they get advertising revenue instead<br>
of you. If you are just one of dozens of sites, then you want to make<br>
cost/reward too high to bother scraping. If this is targeted on only<br>
your website, and the data you have displayed is intrinsically valuable,<br>
then good luck.<br>
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