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There are other ways besides to blocking screen scraping other than implementing Sentor’s ScrapeSentry service. But how useful are these other methods and what are they? Well, one of them is captcha, which will be familiar among many web users. When people encounter... Read More

Ryanair is celebrating a victory against screen scraping after the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that carrying out the action in order to resell the airline’s flights is unlawful. The court also banned German website Vtours from screen scraping Ryanair’s website. In... Read More

Irish airline Ryanair has had its appeal over screen scraping dismissed by a Spanish court. The carrier took eDreams to court for using screen scraping software in order to offer customers direct information on Ryanair flights. It said that such intermediation in the sale of... Read More

Corporate data is of great importance in many ways. As we come to the end of 2009, a year which has seen a number of damaging data breach incidents, information is a valuable commodity. For this reason, it could be a wise move for companies to protect themselves against the... Read More

Many people may have innocently copied and pasted content from a website in direct breach with the terms and conditions of companies’ websites. Others undertake scraping activity for different reasons. There are a number of ways screen scraping is carried out and a variety... Read More

While many different firms are a target for screen scraping activity, there are some that are more at threat than others. According to Sentor MSS, online business-to-business portals are particularly at risk and are regular targets for screen scraping. For such portals, keeping... Read More

There are plenty of threats that companies need to be made aware of. Malware and screen scraping are certainly two of them. It seems that the two can even go hand in hand. Earlier this year, it was noted that once installed on a system, malware can carry out screen scraping... Read More

Data scraping is often carried out so that the party taking the information can make use of it for its own purposes. It appears this is now happening in the social networking world. As seen in the recent case between Power.com and social networking site Facebook, this can end up... Read More

There have been a number of cases surrounding the use of data in recent times and issues involving screen scraping have made their way into the courtroom on more than one occasion. While taking legal action could be something of a last resort for some firms, there are... Read More