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Why is no one filing lawsuits over this yet?
by singpolyma3 1mo ago
Why is no one filing lawsuits over this yet?
- Symbiote 1mo agoAgainst what person or entity?
- johneth 1mo agoBright Data et al.
- inigyou 1mo agoBright Data's business is legal, but they could be subpoenaed to find out which customer is making these requests, but first you would have to prove they were actually involved, because there are many residential proxy providers.
- singpolyma3 1mo agoWhoever is doing the abuse. If we don't know who that is we should find out
- inigyou 1mo agoSometimes the first step of a lawsuit is discovering who you're suing. It's not unusual and there are processes for it. You could bring something like an access log to a court and receive an order for all ISPs involved to unmask the corresponding users.
- mmooss 1mo agoIndeed. The solution isn't technical but legal. It's clearly abusive of - really stealing - other people's resources; there's no question about it. For some reason, like with fraud via email, text, and phone, we don't do anything about it. All this brazen crime and government does nothing; we don't even imagine government doing anything.
- akersten 1mo agoThe brazen crime of asking for a resource and receiving it. You have the power, and should exercise it, to rate limit bad actors
- inigyou 1mo agoHow do you know who the bad actors are, if you don't use the legal process to unmask them?
- mmooss 1mo ago> You have the power, and should exercise it, to rate limit bad actors It's well known, and it was the point of the OP, that we don't have that power. If you know a solution, please share it - the world would love to hear it.