Can you post the archive link so I don’t have to laugh at The Verge asking for me to give them money for their “journalism”?
Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
From The Verge page: “SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.”
Bwahahahah! Oh, now that gave me a great laugh!
Archer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Evading blocks isnt illegal
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is completely untrue. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act uses extremely broad wording. People have been sued for right clicking on a webpage and saying “View Source” before. Aaron Schwartz, co-founder of Reddit, was driven to suicide after a harassment campaign by the FBI and scientific paper publishers, as another example.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yet