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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Alexdo on March 29, 2010, 06:51:51 AM

Title: Maritime Ships Database
Post by: Alexdo on March 29, 2010, 06:51:51 AM

Maritime Ships Database - Freeware Version.
Download it here: http://www.msd.googleload.net/download.html

Very usefull!

Title: Re: Maritime Ships Database
Post by: Clyde Dickens on March 29, 2010, 07:58:57 AM

Alexdo

The page to which your link flows includes the following words

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No part of the information contained in the MSD website and software may be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means without prior permission in writing from MSD.
The following actions are forbidden:
- Bulk-downloading of data contained on the site
- Use of downloaded data for financial gain
- Use of a robot or similar remote device to download large batches of data.
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It is probable that copyright lawyers would consider that Shipspotting is a retrieval system, and that uploading to it would be a transmittal.

Until written approval can be obtained and quoted as being from MSD, I believe information from MSD should not be uploaded to this site.

Clyde

Title: Re: Maritime Ships Database
Post by: on March 29, 2010, 11:59:57 AM

It's very out of date.  Fred Olsen's Balmoral (8506294) is still shown as Norwegian Crown over two years after it changed ownership and name, and was extended.

David_s