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Re:Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' by thinkmassive on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:13PM (#17542958)
Anyone can send a cease and desist. How would that be enforceable though? The information is available publicly to anonymous browsers.
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Re:Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' by LeifCarrotson on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:47PM (#17544443)
The risk is not that the results will be impossible to gather and publish, but that they will be unprofitable.

CamelCamelCamel makes money off users clicking Amazon affiliate URLs to go to Amazon from their site. It's easy for Amazon (or anyone else, really) to determine from these URLs the Amazon account which is tied to these links and 'enforce' the C&D by canceling/refusing to pay that account's affilate link revenue.

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Re:Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' by eloff on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:54PM (#17543365)
It didn't really matter who's right and who's wrong. If a fortune 500 sues you, you lose even if you win.
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Re:Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' by FLUX-YOU on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:52PM (#17543338)
Well-funded Amazon legal dept vs individual = not a fun time, regardless if it's found frivolous or thrown out.
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