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Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by th

• tyingq 6y ago
  You can, of course, play tricks with javascript to thwart the scrapers, or serve them deliberately bad data, block ip ranges, etc. Depends on how tenacious they are, it's a war of escalation.
• bdonlan 6y ago
  The problem with trying to use the DMCA for this is that, provably, no human creativity is involved, and so it's likely that the output of this is uncopyrightable.
  • tyingq 6y ago
    It tends to work in practice anyway. Competitors that stoop that low aren't likely to actually contest it. I understand there's a legal liability there, but again, if you research who is doing it, the risk can be very low. And if you focus just on google SERPS, they often don't notice their pages got yanked from the index.