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Why aren't we litigating against scrapers, anyway? DDoS is a felony.
by inigyou 2mo ago
Why aren't we litigating against scrapers, anyway? DDoS is a felony.
- ekidd 2mo agoLargely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners.
- inigyou 2mo agoIf you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them.
- afdbcreid 2mo agoBut they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing. (Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that).
- inigyou 2mo agoWhy do you think you can only use the one who's renting them IP addresses?
- semiquaver 2mo agoHow good are you personally at iteratively and sequentially jumping through the legal systems of dozens of countries over the course of years, interleaved with genuinely difficult technical investigation, to unmask successive onion-layers of identity in order to unmask one offender? Oh, and it also only takes a few minutes to reconfigure everything and invalidate those years of legal and investigatory work.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhy do you think OpenAI, Anthropic, Bright Data, and Comcast aren't US companies?
- miki123211 2mo agoBecause they're all in countries who would ignore such litigation.
- articulatepang 2mo agoWho’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?