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There's a bit difference between breaking a scraper and sending Cease and Desist letters. Also, blocking scraping is very rich (and expectedly hypocritical) fo
by miloignis 1mo ago
There's a bit difference between breaking a scraper and sending Cease and Desist letters.
Also, blocking scraping is very rich (and expectedly hypocritical) for an AI company, which SpaceX is now.
- notpushkin 1mo agoGoogle has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well. And of course, Google is an AI company, too.
- account42 1mo agoWasn't it a DMCA takedown actually?
- notpushkin 1mo agoThere are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?
- gamer191 1mo agoIt was the RIAA, not Google It failed because it didn’t make any technical sense. The RIAA was trying to argue that YouTube’s proof-of-work JavaScript challenges were some kind of DRM and by running JavaScript YouTube-dl was circumventing DRM