don’t link to businessweek

just a heads up, don’t link to businessweek.

according to the terms of use on businessweek’s web site, you may not:

use or attempt to use any “deep-link”, “scraper”, “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “data mining”, “computer code” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of bw.com, any data or content found on or accessed through bw.com, or any other bw.com information without prior express written consent of bw;

i guess that means it’s also against their terms of use to subscribe to their rss feed as well.

i suppose that launching firefox and entering the url to businessweek would constitute a “manual process” which, therefore, means that even reading their web site is now a violation!