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Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? by tptacek on Sunday January 09, 2011 @02:03PM (#2086085)
Do you have a document on your site establishing that this idiot is violating your acceptable use policy? Then you should report them to Amazon's abuse group:

http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/co...

You can use technical countermeasures to defend your site, but you'd be doing the rest of the Internet a favor to get them knocked off Amazon.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? by brandnewlow on Sunday January 09, 2011 @02:14PM (#2086109)
We do. I'll send that over to them. Great idea!
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper? by CWuestefeld on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @12:17PM (#2120460)
Have you heard back from Amazon? We've got a similar incident going on, which I reported last Friday (3 business days ago), but haven't yet seen any acknowledgment from them.
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