It it legal to acquire data from the web?
If not I’d recommend a class-action against Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos etc. They have more money than us. 🙂 Seriously, current legal standing is that linking to other sources with a small bit of context is generally accepted. It is similar to printed catalogues. • Your servers are fast. I’d like to read the news directly from your server. Is there any chance that you could cache the information, like Google does? Technically we could easily do it, but we ourselves feel that it is on the edge of acceptable behavior. Those spending resources on writing an article should have people reading it on the website in the intended context. When we link to the source we are doing it a favor and can expect to be met with cooperation. • What if any news source should not be interested to be included? Hard to see any good reason but if so, we would of course respect that. All that would be needed is that a person with an email-address mentioned as contact on the page in question writes to us.
