Post #2972708

@khobochka@mastodon.social Laws like this one should apply to scraping that ignores the standard robots.txt: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 An automated program willfully ignoring an explicit order to stop should result in prison time for the perpetrators. Add additional financial penalties for businesses whose employees do it, and slap percentages of annual revenue on any noncompliance for failing to turn over employees implicated in illegal scraping. The issue would dry up immediately.