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The problem is not about personal use. It's about big corporations scrapping billions of pages to make money.
by ivanjermakov 1y ago
The problem is not about personal use. It's about big corporations scrapping billions of pages to make money.
- skeezyboy 1y agothose publicly accessible pages yea?
- antonymoose 1y agoWhile I agree it’s a problem, unless you get litigious or the backing of a national congressional body, you might as well not care. You won’t win this fight. Circa 2008 I worked for a startup that would scrape Google Books and a variety of other sources for public domain content to then print via Amazon’s Print-on-Demand services. Google, of course, didn’t like this and introduced a Captcha not very long after we started scraping. So we hired a team of underemployed / unemployed English majors during the height of the recession, paid them $10 per hour to type in Captchas all day long and we downloaded their full corpus anyways. If Google can’t win, you won’t either.