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> If you give away your content for free and expect ads to sustain you, that will start failing once others get the value out of your content without seeing the

> If you give away your content for free and expect ads to sustain you, that will start failing once others get the value out of your content without seeing the ads I don't think a paywall would fix this. One paid account is all a scraper needs. It couldn't really even be rate-limited if it's just "reading" articles as they become available. After the data is acquired it can be dispensed. If directly posting it violates copyright, then obscuring it behind AI will do the trick just fine.

MBCook 3y ago
But it stops being trivial. Now to scape websites en mass you have to automate signing up for them, probably paying for it. And unlike now to sign up you have to agree to a very enforceable EULA. So instead of going to court with “FunAI read my public website and is making money off it which I don’t think that should be fair use”, you have “FunAI violated a contract they signed and committed fraud by lying on signup”. Seems to me that’s much easier. There will always be people who get the content for free somehow. You don’t have to stop 100%. Even stopping 95% would be a lot better than the current 0%.