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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm gonna continue to use ad blockers and yt-dlp, and if you think I'm a criminal for doing so, I'm gonna say you don't understand either technology or criminal law.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Thats a crime yeah and if Alphabet co wants to sue you for $1.34 damages then they have that right, just as we should have the right to sue them if their AI crawlers make our site unusable and plagiarize our work to the effect of thousands of dollars, or even press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Thats a crime yeah and if Alphabet co wants to sue you for $1.34 damages then they have that right

    So yeah, I stand by my statement that anyone thinks this is a crime, or should be a crime, has a poor understanding of either the technology or the law. In this case, even mentioning Alphabet suing for damages means that you don't know the difference between criminal law and civil law.

    press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services

    That's not a crime, and again reveals gaps in your knowledge on this topic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    That is actually a crime, you will get prison for DDoS in USA, UK, and EU. Presumably you will disappear if you do it in China.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    you will get prison for DDoS in USA

    Who said anything about DDoS? I'm using ad blockers and saving/caching/archiving websites with a single computer, and not causing damage. I'm just using the website in a way the owner doesn't like. That's not a crime, nor should it be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services

    That’s not a crime, and again reveals gaps in your knowledge on this topic.

    We did

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You were talking about $1.34 in damages, which doesn't sound like downtime or disruption.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    You appear to have misread

    just as we should have the right to sue them if their AI crawlers make our site unusable and plagiarize our work to the effect of thousands of dollars, or even press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services.

    YOU caused google lost ad revenue

    GOOGLE's Crawlers have crippled sites

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