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: Normally, I'd be fine with hosting code that when used violates someone's TOS; The existence of the code isn't illegal in the country where RC is hosted (with the exception of copyright protection, DRM and the DMCA). The worst most entities can do is send me a DMCA notice (Which is easily attainable via WHOIS), I take down the code, and that's that. If ''Google'' gets upset with Rosetta Code, they can strike RC from their search index, and we lose 68% of our traffic and exposure. And, AFAIK, there's no recourse short of getting something like the Slashdot community up in arms. A DMCA notice is one thing; I can fight or fold. Getting dropped from Google's search index is rather like being cut off at the knees. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 19:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
::The task title can be changed, and disallowed by robots.txt, and a disclaimer. But i think that this is insufficient too. Feel free to remove that task. --[[User:Guga360|Guga360]]
: I've done a little bit of experiments; using directly a wget will result in a 403 http answer. Changing the user-agent (even a void string, or a non existing like MikeyMouse/1.0!) worked... '''But'''... I've read Yahoo! TOS, and tried wget on Yahoo!, and it works even without changing User-Agent. So, maybe, this same task can be changed in order to use Yahoo! instead? (Anyone with a better english could check the TOS, if it really does not disallow what Google disallows) --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 21:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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