Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You?
An anonymous reader writes "My boss recently assigned me a project, that was all his idea, with two basic flaws that would require me to break multiple web sites’ Terms of Service (TOS). Part requires scraping most of the site, parsing the data and presenting it as our own without human intervention. While we’re safe on copyright issues clearly scraping like this is normally not allowed. At times it might also put a load on those sites. The other is, for lack of better words, a “load balancing” part that requires using multiple free accounts instead of purchasing space and CPU time for less than $2,000 USD per month. The boss sees it as “distributed” computing when in reality it’s “parasitic”. My question is am I wrong about the ethics? If I do need to walk how best can I handle it without damaging my reputation and future employment opportunities?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.