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Re:Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with C... by gjsman-1000 on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:29PM (#29752710)
I think that one potential solution would be for the SCOTUS (who has made very wrong decisions in the past) to rule that third-party information is protected and requires a warrant just like entering your home. The decision to allow warrantless requests from businesses was a major error (or, maybe, malicious decision) in my view.

Step 2 is to ban such activity or rule that it is copyright infringement. And to maybe admit that scraping needs more guardrails and regulation.

Re:Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with C... by hermitdev on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:31PM (#29755529)
Maybe we should just leverage the existing copyright penalties our beloved MPAA and RIAA lobbied so hard for? What is it... 15 years in jail and $250,000 fine per violation? Isn't that what the scare screens on DVDs always warned me about? If they're claiming 1B photos they've scraped and violated copyright on...
Re:Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with C... by gjsman-1000 on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:57PM (#29755663)
Rule #1 (as famously learned by SpaceX and Tesla) about doing new and risky things: Don't ask permission. Deal with the consequences later. They'll probably be smaller than if you had asked.