RE: [syndication] Moreover Terms and Conditions for free use

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

>> I agree with pretty much everything you said. However, while I agree with
>> your statement above, what about screen-scrapers? There was a list of
feeds
>> that was sent out a few days back and it included MSNBC -- AFAIK MSNBC
>> doesn't publish RSS, though I may be wrong. What if they don't want their
>> content aggregated like that?
>
>because it's me providing a screen-scraped msnbc feed (along with
>others at http://trainedmonkey.com/news/feeds.php), i would hasten to
>point out that i'm not charging anyone (msnbc or people pulling down
>the msnbc feed) any money.

Thanks Jim, I couldn't remember the URL off the top of my head.

I wasn't criticizing your service at all -- in fact I think it's great! I
was just extrapolating it out to larger syndicate services, and I guess this
is essentially the same argument that you can make about Moreover, whether
they screen-scrape or have people manually put the content in, what if the
owning site doesn't want them to?

Eh, this is just beating a dead horse I guess -- personally I think these
are great services and can only benefit the target sites. But the
Ticketmasters of the world don't necessarily agree... :(

>and as the saying goes, sometimes it
>is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. :)

I'm in the military, and believe me, that is so true!!  :D

-dave