- keep changing the design (or just HTML) so that they have to change their
parsing code
 - begin legal action if you can prove the data is yours.

#1 is most likely to be effective, they'll get tired of having to change
their code. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 15 September 2003 11:58
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ cf-dev ] Stopping 'db scrapes'
> 
> 
> People,
> 
> One of the sites I am working on gets its data 'scraped' for 
> use in a piece
> of software developed by a competitor. They use an http get 
> or post from an
> end users machine so it's impossible to tell the software 
> apart from any
> other user.
> 
> Has anyone here any advice on what methods to use to defeat 
> this sort of
> thing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Pete Dray
> 
> 
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