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Old Oct 18, 2014 | 1:28 am
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lewinr
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Originally Posted by jarusoba
And that was exactly what I posted upthread.
There is nothing wrong IMO what KVS is doing, except KVS should market itself as a scraper instead of a data provider. Everything KVS offers can be done though other FREE websites. I pay for KVS only because of the convenience, not because of the data it provides.

The GTC thing is just another website that KVS can scrape from. KVS commits no fault by pointing to us how to be crooks ourselves (if using GTC credentials in an unauthorized way constitutes being a crook that is). We are the one being the crooks, not KVS. Whether we want to use its service or not is OUR choice. So if you think this is immoral, DON'T do it! Just stop using KVS. If you're like me, feeling no guilt of using GTC credentials, by all means continue to use KVS to scrape the info.
+1

We are paying KVS for a tool he has made (hence the name KVS Tool!), not for being a source of data.
He is pointing us to sources of data which are available for his tool.
And it is up to us if we use them or not.
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