Do not want
I do not want my datasets being accessible by any old person on the street. It may be fine for some fringe cases, but I and many others take the time and resources to collect and organize data. Often, that costs money if not time. I may or may not charge for my compiled datasets, but I may require usage agreements and define permissions to access it. I'll also want to distribute the data in whatever format I choose. I'm not going to offer up millions (billions?) of rows of data at my own hosting/bandwidth expense for some fool that wants to see how many green Volkswagons got parking tickets near the bus station they catch on a whim. I will present it in whatever format I choose, and if you want to access it, you can use my format with my rules using whatever API I chose, or get your own dataset.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
