On 4/9/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@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.