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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by swyx on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:14PM (#44447039)
what actually are the consequences of ignoring robots.txt (apart from DDOS)? have any of these cases ended up in court at all?
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by v5v3 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @07:35AM (#44453949)
BBC recently served a cease and desist on perplexity to stop, and delete all existing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7ndgylzzmo

So an ai company can just be naughty till asked to stop, and then exclud that one company that has the financial resources to go legal.

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