Brion Vibber wrote:
So, what, it's *simpler* to silently block them
than to drop them a note
saying "hey, this seems a little unusual. It looks like you're tunneling
our side and adding advertisements to it, which isn't really cool.
You're welcome to mirror the content, of course, but you should serve
the pages from your own servers -- here's a link to the public database
dumps and the software we use to run it -- but make sure also to include
the appropriate information and backlinks to comply with the license.
Thanks!"
I 100% agree with Brion about this friendly approach to problems like
this. Maybe they just didn't think things through clearly; maybe they
thought this was fine. Only if they decide to be mean to us, we can
use technical means to stop this. Otherwise, we should try to keep
friendly with people who are trying to reuse our content.
--Jimbo