On Monday, May 2, 2016, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>

> At this point, I would say that everybody who screen-scrapes saw it coming
> and breaking them is a good thing as sometimes, lessons just have to be
> learned.
>

Personally, I dont think we should shy away from breaking screen scrapers
if we get something out of it, but in this case I dont see the benefit.
Breaking things because we can without getting any benefit (or only trivial
benefits) seems rather pointless and kind of mean to those who do scrape.

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bawolff
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