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989 points acomjean | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.478s | source
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r_lee ◴[05 Sep 25 21:28 UTC] No.45143837[source]▶
One thing that comes to mind is...

Is there a way to make your content on the web "licensed" in a way where it is only free for human consumption?

I.e. effectively making the use of AI crawlers pirating, thus subject to the same kind of penalties here?

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Wowfunhappy ◴[05 Sep 25 21:36 UTC] No.45143906[source]▶
I'd argue you don't actually want this! You're suggesting companies should be able to make web scraping illegal.

That curl script you use to automate some task could become infringing.

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1. johnnyanmac ◴[05 Sep 25 22:30 UTC] No.45144429[source]▶
>I'd argue you don't actually want this! You're suggesting companies should be able to make web scraping illegal.

At this point, we do need some laws regulating excessive scraping. We can't have the ineternet grind to a halt over everyone trying to drain it of information.

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2. 1gn15 ◴[06 Sep 25 02:34 UTC] No.45146124[source]▶
The GP was talking about web scraping, not "excessive web scraping". It's an important difference.