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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:02:06)
@feld @n_dimension @stark Swartz was scraping so fast it was causing availability problems for on-campus legitimate users, that was how he got caught and a big factor in why they went after him. If you think about it it's very similar to (legitimate) complaints about aggressive AI scrapers knocking out sites and raising maintenance costs.
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Only 3 Easy Payments of $19.95@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-08-22 09:02:38)
@sun @n_dimension @stark yep it's in the PDF I linked. He crashed their servers and took the whole system down he was hitting it so hard

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-22 09:06:22)
@feld @n_dimension @stark imagine how much water his scraper was using