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Originally Posted by ubercapper
This line in an earlier post in the thread "Program scrapes free data and gives it away as database" points to a clear violation of the terms of use of the web sites from which the information is obtained.
Most if not all sports web sites, including those in the racing industry, contains language the information is for personal, noncommercial use and may not be transferred or distributed in any way, as well as stating any use of robots, spiders and scrapers are prohibited.
This shouldn't be that hard to understand.
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As Johnny Carson used to say.
Anyhow...
Sports results are in the public domain; in fact, data providers give away charts results as free downloads. Many users collect them, import them into databases(hard to do with pdf, but doable), slice them and dice them, etc.
The results are NOT being resold.
NO proprietary figures / formulas from the data providers are used AT ALL. And in fact, the lack of that makes the data kinda lacking. Users that want better buy their own data files and import them into the program.
I do find something hard to understand:
Putting aside technicalities...what is YOUR agenda here?
What do YOU wish to accomplish?
HOW are you helping promote the game here?
WHAT are you gaining from this?
PS I'm just a private bettor and have zero connections to the software provider.
But the poor guy works his tail off, gives lengthy free trial, then practically gives it away for $90...he has no fallback of a big salary for yakking away from some industry behemoth.
