Originally Posted by
lewinr
How is it prohibited? By the Terms of Service? Which part of ToS exactly does it violate? Most critics of KVS have said that ToS often forbid scraping, so I assume that is what you are saying. Scrapers generally read the information and store it which KVS does not do. KVS immediately presents the information in a different format without storing anything. Therefore KVS tool should be considered as an alternative browser.
Most of the websites the KVS
unAvailability Tool scrapes are listed in the Wiki with the relevant ToS quoted.
Most ToS include terms that prohibit screen scraping, automated extraction/display of data, aggregate, modify of manipulate portions of content.
It is up to the end user to determine whether the KVS Availability Tool automates screen scraping by extracting specific sets of data, manipulates them and displays them in a completely different format to that intended by the website owner, if that violates the website(s) ToS, and if so whether they accept that.