Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
KVS can protest all he wants but this is at best a very grey area of law. There have been quite a number of screen scraping legal cases over the last few years.
Some are detailed here. Note that in every one of the airline-data-related cases the
ffending party agreed to stop or was forced to do so. KVS knows this, which is why he hides. It's harder to be served a cease and desist order when nobody knows where you are.
Winner. Potential legal ramifications if it is ever admitted publicly, so it won't be. Which results in canned / spotty responses to the softballs and blatantly ignoring the hardballs.
What is really genius about the who operation is that you(!) are the guilty party because it is coming from your IP with your webrequests (as compared to EF or other bloggers apps). The win-win is it doesn't require hosting and bandwidth.