[WikiEN-l] Real-time mirrors as a net revenue _source_?

[Rob]

On 4/9/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   >From a business perspective, what is to stop a site from sucking in
> just enough to mirror in real-time, and then turning around and
> forwarding it to other mirrors? In an extreme case, there would be
> only one customer of this service (paying say $1000) and they in turn
> might have multiple customers of their own (say 11m paying say $100);
> the original customer will turn a profit just from reselling the feed,
> the secondary customers will save major amounts of money, and all
> benefitting from advertising. I doubt we could prohibit it
> contractually, and even if we could, suing fly-by-night outfits would
> be tough, even in addition to the PR aspects.


Even if we couldn't contractually prohibit this, we could just turn off the
feed.