RE: Bot hunting

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > > Under US law, mere compilations of facts are *not* copyrightable, 
> > > which is why for a long time, map companies would have intentional 
> > > tiny errors on their maps, as the *errors* were copyrightable.

> That is real fuunny but I find it surprising that they did Not 
> get sued for wrong maps by the public ie "faulty product"
> or "misinforming the public"

This is called fingerprinting, and I've seen it used in software as well. My
first job out of college in '83 we built a large 4GL and had a couple of
dummy functions in the code that didn't do anything and were there purely
for identification in case code got stolen. 


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