Top techniques to avoid 'data scraping' from a website database

Question

I am setting up a site using PHP and MySQL that is essentially just a web front-end to an existing database. Understandably my client is very keen to prevent anyone from be

Answer 1

My suggestion would be that this is illegal anyways so at least you have legal recourse if someone does scrape the website. So maybe the best thing to do would just to include a link to the original site and let people scrape away. The more they scrape the more of your links will appear around the Internet building up your pagerank more and more.

People who scrape usually aren't opposed to including a link to the original site since it builds a sort of rapport with the original author.

So my advice is to ask your boss whether this could actually be the best thing possible for the website's health.