AI scrapers request commented scripts

Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by sdenton4 on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:57PM (#45776055)

The problem is that serving content costs money. Llm scraping is essentially ddos'ing content meant for human consumption. Ddos'ing sucks.

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:00PM (#45776078)

Scraping is legal. DDoSing isn't.

We should start suing these bad actors. Why do techies forget that the legal system exists?

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by ColinWright on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:21PM (#45776275)

There is no way that you can sue the people responsible for DDoSing your system. Even if you can find them ... and you won't ... they're likely as not either not in your jurisdiction (they might be in Russia, or China, or Bolivia, or anywhere) and they will have a lot more money than you.

People here on HN are laughing at the UKs Online Safety Act for trying to impose restrictions on people in other countries, and yet now you're implying that similar restrictions can be placed on people in other countries and over whom you have neither power nor control.

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by herbst on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:42AM (#45780643)

Facebook and Bing sometimes are 80% of my daily hits and don't respect my IP bans and other bot filterings at all. You think I can just sue them and have any change to win before being broke?

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by dylan604 on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:00PM (#45778039)

running the scraping bots cost money too.

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by QuadmasterXLII on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:19PM (#45778147)

what?

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by meepmorp on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:40AM (#45780634)

> Won’t somebody please think of the parasites?

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