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Aye, Robot, or Can Computers Contract?
Mark Rasch, 2007-11-16

A contract is usually described as a "meeting of the minds." One person makes an offer for goods or services; another person sees the offer and negotiates terms; the parties enter into an agreement of the offer; and some form of consideration is given in return for the provision of something of value. At least that's what I remember from first year law school contracts class.

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Aye, Robot, or Can Computers Contract? 2007-11-20
Anonymous
Yes they can. You can set up your robots.txt file to disallow robots. If you combine this with a commented copyright notice in the robots.txt file, the robot owner is violating your terms of use if he knowingly circumvents your robots.txt file...

I can hear the collective "ugh, nobody listens to...

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