The DMCA Was Built to Stop DVD Piracy. Google Wants to Use It Against Scrapers (opens in new tab)

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16 pointsPigiVinci8318d ago5 comments

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    If Google’s legal theory prevails ... every CAPTCHA, every JavaScript
    challenge, every behavioral analysis system deployed on a public website
    could potentially become a “technological protection measure” under
    Section 1201. Any scraper that solves a CAPTCHA, executes JavaScript
    to render a page, or rotates IP addresses to avoid detection could be
    committing a federal offense.

cantalopes18d ago

The whole dmca that bans user from circumventing enceyption shouldn't even exist and it's a great example of lobbying going horribly wrong and media companies having too much money

7777777phil18d ago

After hiQ v. LinkedIn gutted the CFAA for public web data, Google needed a new theory. If courts accept that CAPTCHAs are "technological protection measures" under copyright law, every website with a bot check just gained federal enforcement power against scraping. Built by a company that literally indexed the web for a living..

iberator17d ago

Good. Scrapping for AI training is evil. Websites are meant for humans.

ronsor17d ago

Don't worry. Google has the training data already; they just don't want others to get it.

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