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throwaway6845 | 8 years ago

We're not talking generic "bots".

We're talking a custom scraper written for this site and this site only.

Yes, I am expecting the people who spend hours inspecting the source of my site, and then writing a custom scraper for it, to spend 30 seconds reading the T&Cs first.

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tokenizerrr|8 years ago

Not sure why you'd expect that. If my webbrowser can download your source code, my software will as well.

If you want people to read it put your content behind a sign up with a checkbox.

throwaway6845|8 years ago

It is _already_ behind a sign-up with a checkbox. They scraped their way past that too.