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I am so confused by the low link lol.
FFS they try to paint people protecting themselves as evil but are keeping facts too much and it becomes an absolute confusing mess xD
It's not really that confusing.
The software equivalent of armed masked men are illegally breaking in to your personal property, stealing everything that isn't nailed down and ripping all the nails out of everything that is, and then leaving with it in order to reuse it for personal profit. It is, in all ways, similar to a home invasion. These invaders are then telling you that you're a bad person because you don't want them invading your property and stealing all your shit.
Its highly illegal, everyone involved with it knows for a fact that it's highly illegal, so they best they can do is try and spin propaganda around it because nobody has the balls to try and arrest Sam Altman, et al about it.
If you pick the lock on my front door and enter my home without permission I am going to put a 12 gauge slug through your solar plexus. If I could do the same to an AI crawler I would.
There is a way to stop the IA Crawlers, but it involves using dynamite and a hard risk of landing in prison.
This is a terrible analogy.
First off, robots.txt has no force of law. It’s just a curtesy. You are free to ignore it (except where prohibited by EULA or contract).
Secondly, this is more similar to a supermarket hanging a sign that you can only access 3 of their 11 aisles.
What this is doing is if you try to access the 7 aisles they requested you not to use, you have to solve a math problem or two.
Ai scrapers are obnoxious loud drunk people who take way more than their fair share.
If you truly have something private (like your house) you should not expose it publically on the internet.
And also, it's not stealing but unauthorized copying.
Beware of dog signs also have no enforcement of law.
But apart from that, if your crawler ends up stuck in an endless loop, that's poor coding on your part. Human beings won't browse a static website endlessly, neither should a crawler
Well, let's turn this situation around then and see how it changes.
I hammer Meta's backend services with 6.8m requests per second, ignoring all posted guidelines, absorbing all the data I can get my hands on from them and feeding it to my machine which is busy trying to build BaseFook based on Meta's data that I've harvested from them.
Criminal DDOS? What's that?
Copyright law? Surely this doesn't apply to this.
Unauthorized access to backend systems? Nah, we'll be fine, that's definitely legal.
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It is currently true that robots.txt doesn't have legal teeth and relies on voluntary compliance, but there have been court cases involving it in the past, and in my opinion they should have resulted in an established legal precedent. Check these out (courtesy of Wikipedia:)
The critical difference that determines whether or not it's illegal is how many lawyers the site owner has.
More like clogging the entry to your exhibition for making copies of your licensed produce, no?