[jecxjo]

Isn't the issue of being selective on who can view the content? If I, random Joe User views the publicly available content you have no issue. But if someone scrapes that data them you'd want to charge them. Unless I click on the ad, the act of using your bandwidth doesn't change based on who the viewer is. You'd want to apply fees based on the future use of the data rather than on your actual costs.

[jsgo]

I'd assume if you weren't signing up, you'd probably look at like 10 profiles tops. A scraper is more than likely going to run through anything and everything it can grab links to (provided it doesn't leverage a very specific filtering mechanism for selecting profiles to scrape).

I could see the hit from a scraper being heavier than that of a typical user. There's also the potential that a user is going to click an ad for any number of reasons, there isn't that likelihood the scraper will.

I'm not anti-scraping by any means, but I get the concerns.

[pbhjpbhj]

Presumably you'd be allowed to limit a scraper to a standard user bandwidth, and a standard user access - X links per day, Y bandwidth.