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News is something that the majority of people read or take in through some format on a daily basis. There are many opinions, however, on how information should be paid for and who has the right to display it and where. In this digital age, websites taking, or perhaps scraping...

Many may not be aware of screen scraping - its potential problems, risks and even who is taking the data in the first place. So what are the basics of this kind of data appropriation? And what kind of firms are or have been affected by screen scraping? Anders Söderström,...

A number of recent cases have heightened the profile of screen scraping. But why should firms now be looking out for screen scraping issues that could affect them? Is it that much of a problem that it deserves a business’ attention? According to TJ McIntyre, a lecturer in...

Ryanair has taken a German internet ticket tout to court, accusing it of unauthorised screen scraping and reselling the airline’s flights at inflated prices. Unister GmbH has been taken to the High Court in Dublin by Ryanair, which has claimed the German organisation...

For those people that carry out screen scraping, it can either be a simple or particularly difficult task, it has been suggested. This depends on how complex the source is, according to Martin Streicher, writing for Linux Magazine. The tools for carrying out scraping activity are...

The act of data scraping can be pernicious and anyone who publishes original content on the internet is affected by scraping to some extent, it has been claimed. Experts at Sentor suggest that out-of-control scraping attacks on a company’s website can seriously damage its...

Cultuzz Digital Media has announced that it is to no longer use screen scraping and its interfaces are now XML-based. The company asserted that screen scraping is not as reliable as an XML interface, which may scare off those looking to use screen scraping in a malicious manner....

Proposals to introduce a levy for scraping online news articles for publication elsewhere have come under fire from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. In an article for PR Week blog, president of the institute Kevin Taylor criticised the proposals by the Newspaper...

Once malware is installed on a platform it can be used in a variety of ways to attack a computer, including screen scraping, it has been said. Screen scraping malware operates by reading the application screen buffer and then taking the data from it, according to research...

Screen scraping websites used by people to compare insurance prices are not always reliable as they rely on commercial relationships, it has been suggested. With these screen scraping sites, not all insurance providers are always listed on every one because of these commercial...