[ndh2]

Was fed up with Quake Live not providing any matchmaking, so I tried to make my own. Of course they didn't have any API, so I needed to scrape their website to get the match results. I sent a lot of requests.

So when they blogged about their web site becoming occasionally very slow, I sheepishly emailed them, and asked if this might be due to my scripts. I assumed that of course they'd have some sort of IP based limiter in place in case I got to greedy. Well, they didn't. They requested that I send them my scripts, which I happily did. They also banned my account, which I thought was quite petty.

They might have unbanned me a couple weeks after that, but I quickly lost interest in Quake Live.

[rajacombinator]

This is about as far from unethical as you can get...

[ndh2]

Well, the title asked for "most unethical", so, yea. It was against the terms of service...

[ikeboy]

Let he who has never scraped throw the first stone

[jplayer01]

Uhhh, just because it's against the terms of service doesn't mean it's unethical.

[emilfihlman]

That's some low key ethical bragging you have there

[ndh2]

Thanks!