I had hoped to limit this to the technical rather than philosophical points, but it looks like the replies are headed elsewhere.

How about an example close to home ?

I create a site called perldudes.com. Instead of developing my own community, I front-end perlmonks.com, taking the inbound http requests, pulling nodes from perlmonks, and substituting text as needed. ( s/perlmonks/perldudes/g, etc). I also put in my own advertisements and content, and maybe the interface is really crappy.

As for what this has to do with perl, It's obviously a bit off-topic. I am interested, however, in how any technique might be implmented in perl, and what modules might help me along.

I am aware that there is no way to completely stop this sort of thing. I'm looking for the best ideas to slow it down or at least stop the simplistic attempts

Abigail: I understand your points, but...If someone else can sell my product, but creates the whole customer selling experience, and I have to create, ship and support the product, how is that okay ? The "scrapers" go to great lengths to make sure the Customer doesn't see the fact that there are two parties involved. They also dish off support, etc, by front-ending the feedback forms.

In reply to Re: Thwarting Screen Scrapers by kschwab
in thread Thwarting Screen Scrapers by kschwab

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