Originally Posted by
rj123456
I understand some of the issues re. screen scraping but as someone pointed out time is money and kvstool does a reasonable job of simplifying (or rather organizing) cumbersome multiple searches. I used it for a bunch of award searches recently and I think I could replicated the functionality using the underlying data sources that KVS itself uses; however the convenience and (once you get used to it) the (artificial) similarity of the views across multiple sources is useful.
It might also be easier and faster to walk into a bank with a gun when looking for money vs. filling out a withdrawal slip. But that's theft and it's unarguably wrong. The data sources KVS uses generally pr
hibit the use KVS makes of them. That's theft, too. It may be easier, but that doesn't make it right.
I'd have no problem paying for data if I knew it were legitimately obtained. In this case it is most clearly not and the funds paid are going into the pocket of someone who has taken it against the wishes of its owners/sources.