>> due to NON-MYTH users using the data for commercial purposes.<br><br>Which non-myth users? I've heard that said many times, but nobody's ever said *what* non-myth software was using dd.<br><br>Try to think about this like a rational adult. Tribune did *NOT* start DD because they were charitable and wanted to help the foss community. They started DD because it was costing them more money to deal with scrapers than to just give the data for free. That is even more true now since the Myth community is bigger now than it was 5 years ago. If it was cheaper to deal with scrapers than to give DD for free, they wouldn't have created DD. So, when Tribune threated to "terminate" DD, it the community responded "ok, we'll go back to scraping because we won't pay", then Tribune would have had to go back to giving DD for free, because they already know it's cheaper to do that than to deal with the scrapers.
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