Ethics and laws regarding scraping websites?
cduan: You should look into the DMCA safe harbor provisions for Internet Service Providers. The basic idea behind them is that, if you comply with certain requirements (establish a DMCA officer, respond to takedown notices, etc.), then your service will be immune from many sorts of copyright infringement claims.This is not legal advice, and it's not even a very good picture of the DMCA safe harbors, but hopefully it's enough to point you in the right direction. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has good resources on this, for example:http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php