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Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners.

If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them.

But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.

(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that).

Why do you think you can only use the one who's renting them IP addresses?

How good are you personally at iteratively and sequentially jumping through the legal systems of dozens of countries over the course of years, interleaved with genuinely difficult technical investigation, to unmask successive onion-layers of identity in order to unmask one offender?

Oh, and it also only takes a few minutes to reconfigure everything and invalidate those years of legal and investigatory work.

Why do you think OpenAI, Anthropic, Bright Data, and Comcast aren't US companies?

Because they're all in countries who would ignore such litigation.

Who’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?