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Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements...
...mystery user downloaded an average of 55,000 documents per day, according to Lydia Petersen, a content manager for HBS’s Baker Library. The user retrieved the documents at a rate as high as four per second, which led Factiva and library officials to believe that an automated script controlled the downloads. The use of such a script is prohibited by Factiva...
Under normal conditions, users across the entire University download a total of just 1,000 Factiva articles...
...Factiva representative notified Petersen in late July about the unusually high number of downloads coming from one server port at HBS. Petersen and other University library staff have been working with Factiva since August on the problem...
...weeks (good to know if you're a record label). London-based Semagix licenses WebFountain to help its large banking customers track suspicious money flows. "Instead of looking at 5,000 documents, we're only looking at 20," explains Larry Levy, Semagix's president and CEO. Factiva, owned by Dow Jones and Reuters, has licensed WebFountain to help its customers track their corporate reputations. As IBM's Gruhl puts it, "It's a huge untapped area where people are getting blindsided by things that are developing on the Internet in chat rooms, in discussion forums or in blogs...