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There’s a fine line between scrapping and DDOS’ing I’m sure. Just because you manufacture chemicals doesn’t mean you can legally dump your toxic waste anywhere
by azemetre 2y ago
There’s a fine line between scrapping and DDOS’ing I’m sure.
Just because you manufacture chemicals doesn’t mean you can legally dump your toxic waste anywhere you want (well shouldn’t be allowed to at least).
You also shouldn’t be able to set your crawlers causing sites to fail.
- acedTrex 2y agointent is likely very important to something like a ddos charge
- iinnPP 2y agoWilful ignorance is generally enough.
- gameman144 2y agoMaybe, but impact can also make a pretty viable case. For instance, if you own a home you may have an easement on part of your property that grants other cars from your neighborhood access to pass through it rather than going the long way around. If Amazon were to build a warehouse on one side of the neighborhood, however, it's not obvious that they would be equally legally justified to send their whole fleet back and forth across it every day, even though their intent is certainly not to cause you any discomfort at all.
- RF_Savage 2y agoSo have the stressor and stress testing DDoS for hire sites changed to scraping yet?
- acedTrex 2y agoThe courts will likely be able to discern between "good faith" scraping and a DDoS for hire masquerading as scraping.
- layer8 2y agoSo is negligence. Or at least I would hope so.
- herbst 2y agoIt's like these AI companies have to invent scraping spiders again from scratch. I don't know how often I have been ddosed to complete site failure and still ongoing by random scrapers just the last few months.