[Xylakant]

No, the value is what you can do with it. Now, if you want to sell the data, then having a competitor that offers it for free is reducing the value, but if you want to use the data, the value is independent of the cost.

[erikrothoff]

Yes, and if the data isn’t secret the number of things you can do with this data is limited. It’s like security by obscurity in reverse.