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Sorry, I should have been clearer, I'm talking about whoever is responsible for leaving it completely open to the public internet.


I mean it is INTENTIONALLY exposed to the public... the only mistake is they are giving it away instead of charging for it. If you don't like it when they give out all the information for free, it doesn't make it better if they charge money.


The only person harmed directly seems to be PDL since they may find it harder to charge subscriptions for bulk access to the data.

I am not sure why this stuff being online in bulk is so much worse than being online behind a paywall that someone should actually go to jail for it.




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