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The destruction of the Web and IP theft needs to be addressed legally. The opinion of a single judge notwithstanding, "AI" scraping already violates copyright. This needs to be made explicit in law and scrapers must get the same treatment as Western governments gave to thousands of individuals who were bankrupted or jailed for copyright infringement.

We are in the Napster phase of Web content stealing.



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