> What's your scraper bot going to do? Create an account on every 'private' forum and immediately get sued?
> What's your scraper bot going to do? Create an account on every 'private' forum and immediately get sued?
* In the case of big IP holders (e.g. media companies, news organizations) this is just obtaining consent. The only fun quirck is that OpenAI's purchasing of this drastically lowers the "AI training is fair use" claim by proving the existance of a market.
* In the case of platforms like Reddit, it just kicks the problem one layer down. The platform does obtain "consent" through it's ToS. (Beware that this consent is legally weak, and won't protect your ass from anything outside copyright) But users will still see it as "stealing" and may flee the platform.
There's still a notable shift away from the clearnet.