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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

That is actually a crime, you will get prison for DDoS in USA, UK, and EU. Presumably you will disappear if you do it in China.

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GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

you will get prison for DDoS in USA

Who said anything about DDoS? I’m using ad blockers and saving/caching/archiving websites with a single computer, and not causing damage. I’m just using the website in a way the owner doesn’t like. That’s not a crime, nor should it be.

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services
  
  That’s not a crime, and again reveals gaps in your knowledge on this topic.
  
  We did
  
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  - GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You were talking about $1.34 in damages, which doesn’t sound like downtime or disruption.
    
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    finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You appear to have misread
    
    just as we should have the right to sue them if their AI crawlers make our site unusable and plagiarize our work to the effect of thousands of dollars, or even press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services.
    
    YOU caused google lost ad revenue
    
    GOOGLE’s Crawlers have crippled sites
    
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