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As others have said, it seems fishy.

They've got this data from somewhere, so why wouldn't they have looked through the license before using it?

Anyway, speaking of MySupermarket, what happened to them? All I know was one day they decided to shut down, without clear reasons. Does anyone have more insight into why it happened?



> MySupermarket, what happened to them?

iirc they were bought out by a supermarket - presumably to prevent customers from realising their prices weren't competitive


See https://www.supersmartlist.com/why-did-mysupermarket-fail/ for some analysis (although it doesn't mention a buyout).


Yeah, I'm scratching my head at this. On the one hand, the UK does have some weird database trolls (a copyright troll called FootballDataCo claimed licence fees from anybody publishing football fixture lists irrespective of where they sourced the information from, and probably can do again since the EU court judgement against them presumably no longer applies)

On the other hand it makes no sense to accompany a supposed order to c&d screen scraping of multiple (independently maintained) websites with thanks for their generosity and "this company is absolutely entitled to request compensation for their work". Either they're a valuable data provider or an licensing obstacle to using perfectly adequate screen scraping techniques, not both. Not sure why a price comparison website would screen scrape the supermarkets with APIs either...


They're not "independently maintained" websites, they all license their data from the same 3rd party data company and re-publish it on their own websites.


They got it from web scraping, doesn't exactly have a license I guess...?




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