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This is the most ridiculous lawsuit ever. How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"? How is less than 2TB of total bandwidth amount to millions of doll
by freehorse 2y ago
This is the most ridiculous lawsuit ever. How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"? How is less than 2TB of total bandwidth amount to millions of dollars of damage? Something is off here. Maybe there is some other motivation behind this, like drawing some legal representative of Anna's archive out? It makes no sense otherwise. Considering that high ranking officers of OCLC (taking a look over their executives in [0]) seem deeply intertwined with the book industry, it makes sense that it is used as a proxy for other types of interests.
[0] https://www.oclc.org/en/about/leadership.html?cmpcat=md_ab&cmpid=md_ab_leadership https://www.oclc.org/en/about/leadership.html?cmpcat=md_ab&c...
- gmerc 2y agoIt’s great. Maybe we can turn it against OpenAI as established precedent if it happens
- red-iron-pine 2y agoCareful, there may be 2nd order effects there. And that's also a "maybe" -- ruling could go the other way and get even worse.
- viking1066 2y ago[How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"?] If only someone had told the person that may have caused the death of Aaron Schwarz!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz