intentionally hard bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
Examples of such badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us, but try downloading
-substantial portions of their data, if you can. The [[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]],
-on the other hand, provides an interface to dump the entire database, including
-the history of edits. This is what we should
+substantial portions of their data, if you can. On the other end of the spectrum,
+the [[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the
+entire database, including the history of edits. This is what we should demand
+from any online resource built collaboratively.
-My current personal policy is to use the non-reciprocal services in read-only
+My current personal policy is to use those non-reciprocal services in read-only
mode, avoiding to help them collect even more information from me.
Call me a fundamentalist for going through these hoops, but I believe I'm