Red states are echoing President Donald Trump’s quest to slash the size and cost of the federal government with their own initiatives aimed at making government smaller and more efficient.
Licensing isn’t 1 sided. You have to have both parties AGREE to the license.
In this case it’s just text on each message.
The reason OpenAI was able to scrape the internet largely consequence free is because they never agreed to the ToS of the websites, thus they are not bound by those terms.
I agree that it isn’t right or morally correct, but legally it’s okay.
Additionally, by signing up to Lemmy, they grant certain rights and privileges to their instance and others due to agreeing to the license.
In fact, lemmy could make it easier for scrapers, as lemmy will happily deliver content to your instance, simplifying scraping.
Then what’s the point? It doesn’t stop scrapers
it would if proven give them rights to seek damages.
No it wouldn’t have.
Licensing isn’t 1 sided. You have to have both parties AGREE to the license.
In this case it’s just text on each message.
The reason OpenAI was able to scrape the internet largely consequence free is because they never agreed to the ToS of the websites, thus they are not bound by those terms.
I agree that it isn’t right or morally correct, but legally it’s okay.
Additionally, by signing up to Lemmy, they grant certain rights and privileges to their instance and others due to agreeing to the license.
In fact, lemmy could make it easier for scrapers, as lemmy will happily deliver content to your instance, simplifying scraping.