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The actual ruling says, literally, that "Adherence to the rules in a robots.txt file is voluntary." It's not a settled area of law, but that seems to be the c
by gnfargbl 1y ago
The actual ruling says, literally, that "Adherence
to the rules in a robots.txt file is voluntary."
It's not a settled area of law, but that seems to be the current position.
- mpweiher 1y agoAnd the other rulings said the opposite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- gnfargbl 1y agoYep, absolutely. I hear you. Like everything legal, it seems to be fuzzy and context-dependent. And that is the point -- the HOPL asserts that you can just put a robots.txt on your website and say that it means bots accepted the terms in that file. In reality, that's a dubious claim.