Sunday, March 2, 2008

Response to the article Data Wars

The article Data Wars by Josh Mchugh was interesting because it explored copyright issues and questions of ethics when it comes to "web2.0" and user generated content on the web.

Because the fact that the whole user generated content, scraping and also web 2.0 became popular in a very short amount of time, ethics, rules, and copyright has not been defined properly. While some sites do encourage using scraping to expand on the user experience and also to get more traffic, but on the other hand some sites condemn the whole idea and are prepared to fight for what is rightfully theirs.

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