X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping

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• PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI companies complaining about scraping lol

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was my first thought. Just tell them it’s for AI training. Tech companies will back it because they have to set that precedence.

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When did scraping become illegal and can I C&D these fucking AI companies that keep scanning and crashing my servers?

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  • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    its not illegal. yes ypu can send a cease and disist to whoever you want.

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh cool that’s actually good to know. I assume xAI lawyers will just shred them though?

      (No seriously though, I thought this was a formal process heh, TIL)

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From Nitter Matrix chat:

  basically, it demands that I:

  1. Permanently take down nitter.net and the GitHub repository, and delete all “X Data” in both 2. Stop all use of the “Twitter” and “X” marks 3. Cease all access to X data, including copies 4. Delete all X account credentials and session tokens 5. Confirm compliance in writing within three business days

  The claims asserted are breach of X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement and Developer Policy; the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act; and the Lanham Act. It threatens litigation against me personally. X states it has also sent notice to GitHub and to my domain registrar.

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• comador@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hypocrites.

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  • ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly, these companies have stolen every thing humans have ever created and now want to bitch. Fuck them

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• DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Invidious and Redlib are next in Big Tech’s crosshairs as Google and Reddit are surely going to be empowered by this.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Invidious is different in that they are not scraping the content, it’s just a frontend. Redlib and Nitter are both scraping and rehosting the content.

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We can’t have nice things.

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• EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s very funny

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