if you put stuff available to download, dont be surprised that someone will download it

What is the actual news here, can anyone explain ????

offbeatport 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They didn't do it in the intended manner.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.

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Sopel an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> did not respect our robots.txt

I don't see a problem

> ignored our Terms of Service

ban them from the service then and case closed?

> and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only

because it's been proven they have been used commercially?

	▲	trollbridge an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I do. It's wrong to ignore a robots.txt. The fact someone else may have licenced content for commercial use doesn't entitle someone else to do the same without paying for it. That's the whole point of copyright law.

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tarsierscripter 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The news is that people download it so much that they saturate your server’s connection and/or peg its CPU or disk (whichever is the weakest link in the chain). We used to call this a Denial of Service attack but now it’s apparently just a cost of doing business, even for people who just want to run a non-commercial hobby site.

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233mhz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://therecord.media/linkedin-wins-court-order-blocking-m...

Which is it then? Megacorps can enforce their TOS through the law but small companies cannot?

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well_ackshually 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Man if only there was such a thing as good manners, good behaviour, accepted practices from a community to not massively hammer servers. If only these websites had been up for a decade with very few problems, before a notoriously manipulative, lying, deceiving, abusive company that makes money off of child abusers came in and just went hurr durr free data in the WORST possible way instead of just politely asking for a dump.

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numpad0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Leopard ate MY face" ?