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Just as criminal laws don't end all crimes, copyright laws and anti-scraping regulation won't end all scraping. But it will greatly reduce it and limit it to ro
by thisislife2 5mo ago
Just as criminal laws don't end all crimes, copyright laws and anti-scraping regulation won't end all scraping. But it will greatly reduce it and limit it to rogue actors. Two examples I can cite here are the laws against email spams and laws against unsolicited marketing calls - they had a definite impact in reducing both (even in India, from where I am, where implementation of laws are often lax).
- JoshTriplett 5mo agoExactly. Bot activity is a problem of volume, not all-or-nothing. Solving 95% of it would be a win.
- Wowfunhappy 4mo agoI basically agree that the idea should be to reduce, not eliminate, bots. However, a big difference with crimes involving the internet is that they can be launched from anywhere. In the real world, I can't steal from someone unless I'm physically present in the same country as my victim. On the internet, the US could outlaw scraping and Russia would keep doing it.
- account42 4mo agoWe already have ways to deal with badly behaving countries.
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- HappMacDonald 4mo agoOne thing I want to know is how porn spam (that is, spam containing pornographic image attachments) vanished so suddenly in the early 2000s. It used to be a huge segment of spam, and then one day it all just vanished. So.. what made it go away, and how could learning about that help us make all the rest of it go away too?
- brandonwindson 4mo agoVisa, Mastercard, and PayPal stopped processing payments for adult sites that used deceptive marketing. Hosting providers terminated accounts that sent image-based spam because the legal risk was too high. The same approach would work for other spam types. Target the payment processors, the hosting providers and make spam financially unsustainable.