Originally Posted by
iantheglobetrotter
In my seventh year as a KVS user I am dismayed to read so many recent negative postings here about something that, for me, has long been a reliable and very useful tool.
What I’ve seen in that time is access methods come and go and lots of new features added while the price remained unchanged. There was always discussion about where the data came from and comments to the effect that much of it could be accessed for free if you knew where to look...
Nobody has said it isn't useful.
What's really going on here is akin to someone scouring a city looking for unlocked doors and then selling the information on whose door was left unlocked and what is inside. Time and time again those who provide the data have shut their sources off to the 't
l' once they've found out what is going on. That doesn't happen when data sources are used legitimately. It happens when data sources are used without permission.