[–]tal@lemmy.today74 points2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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I'd encourage people to actually read the article. I know that the title kind of inspires a kneejerk reaction, but legally, this is kind of interesting and I believe has broad implications.
So, basically, there's a company, Bright Data, scraping X comments for stuff like training AI.
X went after them because X wanted to (and does) sell those comments.
But while I think that it's fine for X to attempt to disrupt Bright Data's scraping attempts using technical means, they can't use the law to restrict them on copyright grounds.
That might have implications for all sorts of things. Reddit's legal position, as Reddit likes selling access to Reddit comments. Training AI on discussion in general. The ability of organizations like archive.org to archive publicly-available comments. Maybe it'll make social media companies have their content not-publicly-accessible, if creating a closed club gives X more control over selling that content.