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Law is always nuanced and contextual. This is also a temporary restraining order, which means no verdict has been reached. The "jury is still out" on this one.
by verdverm 8mo ago
Law is always nuanced and contextual. This is also a temporary restraining order, which means no verdict has been reached. The "jury is still out" on this one.
The judge finds Amazon likely to succeed on the merits for this case that involves specifics in how Perplexity worked, especially for the impact on other business activities, such as meeting their existing contractual relationships with advertisers.
The last paragraph does seem to indicate a strong yes to your last questions.
- blacksmith_tb 8mo agoIt's interesting to see that argument was based on Amazon having dedicated employee time to blocking Perplexity. Obviously bots can be a drag, but if these were agents shopping on behalf of users, that seems counterproductive (I take it Amazon's vision is that the only AI agents they want to support are their own, but imagine trying to claim that you needed to spend a lot of your employees' time on painting the windows of the office building so your competition couldn't see inside...)
- verdverm 8mo agoThey were more than bots shopping for users, at least that's what it sounds like without diving into the fillings