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The problem is that serving content costs money. Llm scraping is essentially ddos'ing content meant for human consumption. Ddos'ing sucks.
by sdenton4 1y ago
The problem is that serving content costs money. Llm scraping is essentially ddos'ing content meant for human consumption. Ddos'ing sucks.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoScraping is legal. DDoSing isn't. We should start suing these bad actors. Why do techies forget that the legal system exists?
- ColinWright 1y agoThere is no way that you can sue the people responsible for DDoSing your system. Even if you can find them ... and you won't ... they're likely as not either not in your jurisdiction (they might be in Russia, or China, or Bolivia, or anywhere) and they will have a lot more money than you. People here on HN are laughing at the UKs Online Safety Act for trying to impose restrictions on people in other countries, and yet now you're implying that similar restrictions can be placed on people in other countries and over whom you have neither power nor control.
- anon10484810573 1y ago> Why do techies forget that the legal system exists? Simple, the gamble is it often makes business sense to "forget". Initially it could be they are unaware of the specific law but after a certain period of time it can really only be assumed the motivation is it is more convenient to ignore it. Not all techies are like this. Until the regulatory system corrects this calculus it will keep happening. Reputational costs or social costs sure wont correct it in this day and age.
- herbst 1y agoFacebook and Bing sometimes are 80% of my daily hits and don't respect my IP bans and other bot filterings at all. You think I can just sue them and have any change to win before being broke?
- dylan604 1y agorunning the scraping bots cost money too.
- QuadmasterXLII 1y agowhat?
- meepmorp 1y ago> Won’t somebody please think of the parasites?