Post #1359244

2025-10-26 02:30 UTC

@claudius @Codeberg At some point we're going to start paying a lawyer a few dollars to send the AI companies a registered return-receipt-requested letter saying "You are denied access to my web site. I have taken every step possible to prevent you from accessing it. If you continue to circumvent these measures and access my site anyway, you will be billed $1000/access. This fee will take effect 14 days after you receive this notice." Then start sending bills.

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@jackyan@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 05:32

@tknarr @claudius @Codeberg I like your idea. Tencent and ByteDance hit our sites badly and they deserve a massive bill from us.

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@alex@blog.mbe.tv 2025-11-02 03:22

@tknarr @claudius @Codeberg how does this behavior not constitute a violation of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision on the part of the crawler? https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=17-USC-1838631189-2041315756&term_occur=999&term_src=title:17:chapter:12:section:1201

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@flammableengineering@app.wafrn.net 2025-11-02 06:49

I think the tough part is figuring out who’s doing it, though I could be wrong. Lots of scrapers will fake their user agent and use sketchy residential proxies to get around IP bans, so it’s quite hard to figure out the origin.

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@blotosmetek@circumstances.run 2025-11-02 19:22

@tknarr @claudius @Codeberg I would expect them to start using proxy companies (registered in, say, Russia) to hide who is really doing the scraping.

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