<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I want to download equity option data (like price, strike, expiration...)</div>
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<div>On the CBOE's web page for delayed quotes they have the following disclaimer:</div>
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<div><font size="1">"PLEASE NOTE: IT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO DOWNLOAD DELAYED QUOTE TABLE DATA FROM THIS WEB SITE BY USING AUTO-EXTRACTION PROGRAMS/QUERIES AND/OR SOFTWARE. CBOE WILL BLOCK IP ADDRESSES OF ALL PARTIES WHO ATTEMPT TO DO SO. THIS DATA IS PROPERTY OF THOMSON FINANCIAL/ILX. DOWNLOADING THIS DATA IN ANY OTHER WAY THAN BY MANUAL TICKER SYMBOL ENTRY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED"</font></div>
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<div>Once they put it on the web isn't the data public domain? Isn't this really just scare language?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Jay</div>