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Re:Ask HN: Ethics and laws regarding scraping websites? by nertzy on Sunday June 01, 2008 @10:15PM (#206372)
Dictionaries have long done the same thing with regard to definitions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_trap

Re:Ask HN: Ethics and laws regarding scraping websites? by xirium on Sunday June 01, 2008 @10:26PM (#206379)
I didn't know that dictionaries also do it. Nor did I know that fake entries were also known as mountweazels (after the surname of a ficticious entry) or nihilartikels. How very cromulent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulent ).