Comment on Posterous commits to building a Ning blog importer. Comments−paulbaumgart16yDo they have an agreement with Ning? Otherwise... how do you scrape Ning at scale without them figuring it out and blocking your IP addresses? Tor?−Raphael16yNing gets tons of traffic. It would be awfully cruel to clamp down on a little harmless scraping.−paulbaumgart16yMaking it harder to move your data might encourage more people to upgrade to the premium version.It wouldn't be very nice, though. I agree.−protomyth16ypeople will do an amazing amount of work when they feel like they are held hostage. People tend not to make the value decision like a company would.
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Do they have an agreement with Ning? Otherwise... how do you scrape Ning at scale without them figuring it out and blocking your IP addresses? Tor?
Ning gets tons of traffic. It would be awfully cruel to clamp down on a little harmless scraping.
Making it harder to move your data might encourage more people to upgrade to the premium version.
It wouldn't be very nice, though. I agree.
people will do an amazing amount of work when they feel like they are held hostage. People tend not to make the value decision like a company would.