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kazinator ◴[21 Oct 24 20:13 UTC] No.41908045[source]▶

>>41900402 (OP) #

OTOH: ByteDance intern responsible for spamming your web server with crawlers that ignore robots.txt given permanent position with a raise, now in management.

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1. 123yawaworht456 ◴[22 Oct 24 00:32 UTC] No.41910007[source]▶

>>41908045 #

honoring robots.txt is an informal courtesy, not international law.

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2. davemp ◴[22 Oct 24 02:34 UTC] No.41910655[source]▶

>>41910007 (TP) #

Not breaking the law is just about the lowest bar you can set for an organization.

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3. not_a_bot_4sho ◴[22 Oct 24 04:15 UTC] No.41911135[source]▶

>>41910655 #

We can go lower

4. hnfong ◴[22 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41914451[source]▶

>>41910655 #

FYI, we're still not sure whether the scraped AI training datasets involve copyright infringement.

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