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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kafen" data-source="post: 5192617" data-attributes="member: 11273">Data Scraping in itself is not illegal. Feist (spelling?) Publications has a recent case where it goes into it. The interesting point in that case is that it allows data scraping - the limits are in direct relation to the creative aspect under US copyright law. In that light, I think the users of Masterplan are in clear violation of the law when they retain data after their DDI accounts expire. Masterplan only provides active DDI account users the ability to scrape the information.<a href="http://www.scmagazineus.com/scraping-data-theft-is-scaling-up/article/104941/" target="_blank">Scraping: Data theft is scaling up - SC Magazine US</a> This covers the brief version. If they apply a secondary standard in cutting off an active DDI account, I hope the DDI ToS has a "do whatever we like clause". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As a side note.... Feist does not assign guilt on the usage of scraping technology which is why I would side with Masterplan in a court case. WOTC has to somehow convince a US court that the copyright clause allows them to regulate the actions of a third party software vendor, in regards to its usage of legal scraping technology, with no binding contract to WOTC while the simple solution is for WOTC to change it's DDI terms of use and enforce its claims.</blockquote>

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