May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.
allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.
I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.
DRM manages rights for products you own. Twitter does not own your posts. Simple.
AVA/NHI: asshole vs asshole, no humans involved.
No matter who wins here, everyone loses
If shitter had won this it would have enabled a raft of lawsuits and redefined section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Both companies are of course garbage
For a second I was weirded out because it appeared you had posted something not hyper-focused on Israel.
(And yes yes you caught me – I simply adore genocide) /s just in case
…ok?
Look at this person’s post history. If they do anything in life but post about Israel I’d be surprised
Same. I read the name and thought, wow they’re posting something unrelated for once if it’s on Technology.
Nope lmaooo
Last time you said I was only posting negative things about Biden because I was a Russian troll. Weird you’re seeing other patterns now.
And there’s plenty of other posts where you magically never show up concern trolling
I definitely am not saying you aren’t a paid Russian troll, not sure wtf you’re saying
You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly
You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly
The projection is astounding do you happen to live in israel?
Now just say some self serving bullshit about how you’re doing your part to help Palestinians and we have linnkerrbaann bingo!
Excuse me for interrupting your 13 posts for today’s segment of the campaign
You didn’t answer the question so I’ll take that as a yes
It’s an incredibly stupid question
It’s ALWAYS a stupid question. Now he’s got a little fan club following him around to white-knight everyone that calls him out.
Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used “risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The judge also said X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” in copyrighted content that X’s users made available to the public.
Based.
Alsup is one of the few judges who actually bothers to have a clue about what they’re doing.
Let’s see what happens if China does it.
