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Re:I got this Cease and Desist for scraping someone's site by Theodores on Friday June 27, 2014 @07:41PM (#7956797)
You could also mention that the original data is on a SSD drive that is soldered to the motherboard of your MacBook Air/High-End Notebook/Chromebook and point out that even if you did send them a hard drive with a copy of everything downloaded that it would be just a copy. The original is uploaded 'onto the cloud' and not easy to delete even if you did smash the MBP to pieces, GCHQ/Guardian style.

Therefore, there is no need to send a drive, even a small child could understand that. A lawyer-type asking for 'the drive' does not get around this detail of how 's and 0's can be easily copied. Point out there is no need for the show.

Finally, go nucular on them. Say you are going to post your scraper tool onto github with full instructions on how to scrape their site unless $3,141,592.65 is donated by them to the EFF by teatime on Tuesday.

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Re:I got this Cease and Desist for scraping someone's site by abrowne on Saturday June 28, 2014 @06:52PM (#7959643) 

    > SSD drive that is soldered to the motherboard of your MacBook Air/High-End Notebook/Chromebook
Nitpick of something I hear a lot: No SSD is soldered on in a MacBook Air or any Chromebook I've seen[1]. You may need an unusual screwdriver (MBA – maybe worse for a Chromebook) to get the bottom cover off, but then it's just a single screw. The PCs I've seen are similar, but I don't have as much experience there.

I assume the confusion started because the RAM is soldered.

[1] You can see internal pictures at chromium.org, e.g. http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

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Re:I got this Cease and Desist for scraping someone's site by NotAtWork on Friday June 27, 2014 @07:55PM (#7956841)
The letter didn't ask for "the drive that the data was one", it asked for "a drive with the data on it", which (when taken with comments about wiping the drive) indicate they just want to see a copy of the data, and named a hard drive as a convenient medium to exchange it on.
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