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by Defenestresque 2300 days ago
I thoroughly enjoyed both the blog post (as an accessible but thorough explanation of your experience with PDF data extraction) and the linked news article [0] as an all-too-familiar story of a company realizing that a creative person is using their freely-available data in novel and exciting ways and immediately requesting that they shut it down, because faced with the perceived dichotomy of maintaining control versus encouraging progress they will often play on the safe side.

[0] https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getting-from-cease-and...