[R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

[Bob Rudis]

I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html
in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority,
should there not be some kind of policy for excluding R packages that
deliberately violate (data) site ToS? (I'm asking this here vs sending
a note to CRAN folks since I tend to be a bit sensitive to this
particular issue).

Box Office Mojo - which is really just Amazon - clearly states that
the activities this package facilitates are in violation of their ToS.
Unlike examples on blogs that also violate BOM ToS, this pkg in CRAN
is almost legitimizing the violations.

Amazon only goes after a few folks a year and it's unlikely R folks
will be their target (for now) but that doesn't make it OK IMO.

Is this worth bringing up to CRAN?