5. Prohibited Use. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE NOT TO: ... conduct automated queries (including screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers, bypassing “captcha” or similar precautions, and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) on the Services;
And while probably not legally recognized, the fact that they're obviously trying to prevent such usage should give the author ethical qualms.
Maybe at the bottom line there is some legal right to do it, but I'd like to see the author at least consider the ethics of what he's doing.
5. Prohibited Use. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE NOT TO: ... conduct automated queries (including screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers, bypassing “captcha” or similar precautions, and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) on the Services;
And while probably not legally recognized, the fact that they're obviously trying to prevent such usage should give the author ethical qualms.
Maybe at the bottom line there is some legal right to do it, but I'd like to see the author at least consider the ethics of what he's doing.