New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.
Inaccurate headline. The bill doesn’t ban web scraping, it just requires that bots accurately identify themselves through the user agent string, and maybe some additional requirements to disclose the purpose of scraping the data.
Oh I’m not saying it’s not better than doing nothing. I’m just saying I’m still disatisfied with the results because of the socio economic implications of businesses being treated legally like people.
Inaccurate headline. The bill doesn’t ban web scraping, it just requires that bots accurately identify themselves through the user agent string, and maybe some additional requirements to disclose the purpose of scraping the data.
And there’s a fine if the company doesn’t comply which is basically now gonna be considered the cost of doing business
That’s still a win. Make the act less lucrative. Fewer entremenureial types to take after it.
Oh I’m not saying it’s not better than doing nothing. I’m just saying I’m still disatisfied with the results because of the socio economic implications of businesses being treated legally like people.
I agree with you though.