Re^2: Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping

Didn't you read the post? It's for an "economics" project. It's for science... for academia. That makes it entirely legit.

if this was exploitive, he'd be obliged to state that it was for a "Personal economics" project... but he didn't, so it's all good.

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Re^3: Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 18, 2011 at 20:17 UTC
That's like saying "I stole a car* but it's okay because it was for an 'economics' project so it's legit." * Or book, CD, movie, whatever...	[reply]
Re^4: Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping (stealing a movie) by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2011 at 20:34 UTC
It's impossible to steal a movie. One could con someone into transferring the rights to a movie to oneself, but that would be fraud rather than theft. One can make a copy of a movie, and while that can be copyright infringement, it's not theft. Maybe you were referring to DVDs? Only the medium (DVD, Blueray disc, reel, hard drive) can be stolen.	[reply]
Re^5: Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping (stealing a movie) by raybies (Chaplain) on May 19, 2011 at 11:52 UTC
Ah, but MPAA Man says, "Spoken like someone whose harddrive we need to raid." :)	[reply]
Re^5: Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping (stealing a movie) by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 19, 2011 at 19:03 UTC
Yes, I misspoke. I was referring to the medium. I'm actually a bit surprised that I didn't say "album" instead of CD.	[reply]