it's the crawlers thy're after (Score 1)

*sigh* of course most of you are missing the point. I work in the travel industry, so I know exactly what they are trying to do... protect their investment in their search tools, and control the presentation of their product. Believe me... you'll see a LOT of this from other travel sites soon, so I guess get ready to be real PO'ed. The crawlers out there are killer, esp the ones that trick the user into believing they've linked to a site like Orbitz, but are actually on some mirror full of ganked assets. That's what they want to stop. We'll see whether they go after one schlep who forwards a deal to their buddy. I'd bet $$s to donuts not... they'll go after the aggregators who are crawling, swiping assets, and spoofing the user.