Re: Web scraping

From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:27:19 +0400


Hi SM,

On 08/01/2017 02:24 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> The article mentions laws from another country. Are these laws
> applicable in Mauritius?
>

No. They are not.

> I'd say that it is not okay to prevent web scrapping for
> anti-competitive purposes. It is also not okay to blatantly copy [1]
> information published on a web site and paste it unless the web site
> allows that.

Yes. That's what I thought too. Web scraping for analysis is different
from web scraping for "pasting".

Regards,

Ish Sookun
Received on Tue Aug 01 2017 - 15:28:09 PST

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