Get legal with them, but first get the proof. Do this, if possible, by
planting information (or unique strings). This is what US police do to catch
people illegally scanning police frequencies (they announce a UFO sighting
somewhere remote and then arrest anyone who turns up looking).

Paolo

> -----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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