Most people know my attitude towards 888, however I’ve also been thinking about what happen if & when 888 pull their finger out and takes action over this issue, what next.
I know from first had experience what it’s like to have my (untold hours of work) content scraped.
I’ve been thinking about personally contacting the software companies who make & sell scraping apps. There must be some way to prevent rogue webmasters scraping site content that does not belong to them. My thought would be either a simple text file (like alexa) or an inclusion to the standard robots.txt or a coded html page (like google site maps) which would prevent scraper software from touching the content.
Obviouslly it would be something that would require it to be coded into the software itself, but it’s a acheivable.
I’m just thinking of the long term here…Any suggestions are welcome.