Comment on Posterous commits to building a Ning blog importer. parentComments−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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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.