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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the bot seems to have been a really bad netizen. On the other hand I hate the idea of there being a precede
by swalsh 12y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the bot seems to have been a really bad netizen. On the other hand I hate the idea of there being a precedence that you can be sued for automating get requests.
- akama 12y agoI don't think they are getting sued for automating get requests. Most of the problem here seems to be the excessive number of requests that made the scraping effectively be a DOS attack.