The records already exist. Check your local library. The entire point of this is the scrapers undermine the business model.
If anything, we should simply me asking archive.org to limit their access to humans.
If anything, we should simply me asking archive.org to limit their access to humans.
It's on the business to find a model that works within the environment of the free market and within the social framework.
If a business model only works by limiting competition, it's a bad model.
If it only works by limiting the rights of consumers, it's a bad model.
If it only works by blocking a legal activity (website crawling and scraping of publicly-facing data, for instance), it's a bad model.
And if their business can't operate otherwise, it's a bad business. No business has an intrinsic right to exist.
> No business has an intrinsic right to exist.
Do AI businesses have an intrinsic right to exist?
It’s passion and love of the community, despite the many struggles and drawbacks.
AI bots scrape our content and that drastically reduces the number of people who make it to our site.
That impacts our ability to bring on subscribers and especially advertisers - Google and Meta own local advertising and AI kills the relatively tiny audience we have.
I dread the day that it happens in realtime - hear sirens? Ask AI who already scraped us.