X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
When did scraping become illegal and can I C&D these fucking AI companies that keep scraping and crashing my servers? Can I sue them for the thousands of dollars in labor and mitigation practices that became necessary because of their agents?
When did scraping become illegal and can I C&D these fucking AI companies that keep scraping and crashing my servers? Can I sue them for the thousands of dollars in labor and mitigation practices that became necessary because of their agents?
its not illegal. yes ypu can send a cease and disist to whoever you want.
*not legal advise
Oh cool that’s actually good to know. I assume xAI lawyers will just shred them?
(No seriously though, I thought this was a formal process heh, TIL)
they do pay lawyers to draw it up but its like a threat. saying stop or we will sue. you can sue for anything. its civil court.
if something is illegal, the government will be the one taking action.
That’s cute.