Irony, or not... The "new kids" don't give a fuck about your rules but are following the rules you made. "Do now, ask for permission later, tie them up in courts for a decade or more while you crush them". Yep.... Archive: https://archive.today/2YnYP From the post: >>Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google built its entire business on scraping the web without asking permission first. And now it wants to use one of the most abused provisions in copyright law to stop others from doing something functionally similar to what made Google a tech giant in the first place. The lawsuit comes on the heels of Reddit’s equally problematic anti-scraping suit from October—which we called an attack on the open internet. Reddit sued Perplexity and various scraping firms (including SerpApi), claiming they violated 1201 by circumventing… Google’s technological protections. Reddit was mad it had cut a multi-million dollar licensing deal with Google for access to Reddit content, and these firms were routing around both that deal and Google itself to provide similar results to users. The legal theory was bizarre: Reddit didn’t own the copyright on user posts, and the scrapers weren’t even touching Reddit directly—yet Reddit claimed standing to sue based on circumventing someone else’s TPMs.