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inigyou
4 hours ago
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Why aren't we litigating against scrapers, anyway? DDoS is a felony.
ekidd
3 hours ago
Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction).
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could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners.
inigyou
3 hours ago
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If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them.
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