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I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on t
by andy_ppp 5y ago
I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
- hyperhopper 5y agoThis is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoNot exactly "scraping", but YT became popular largely through hosting pirated content, which is close.
- andy_ppp 5y agoSo you’re saying it’s fine to be a hypocrite as long as the corporate structure absolves you of direct liability? As the sibling also points out, YouTube was directly founded on illegal content.