Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company

May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.

technocrit,

Let’s see what happens if China does it.

bartolomeo,

allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.

I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.

Pfeffy,

DRM manages rights for products you own. Twitter does not own your posts. Simple.

paysrenttobirds,

Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used “risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The judge also said X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” in copyrighted content that X’s users made available to the public.

Based.

barsquid,

Alsup is one of the few judges who actually bothers to have a clue about what they’re doing.

robolemmy,
@robolemmy@lemmy.world avatar

AVA/NHI: asshole vs asshole, no humans involved.

No matter who wins here, everyone loses

Cheradenine,

If shitter had won this it would have enabled a raft of lawsuits and redefined section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Both companies are of course garbage

TrickDacy,

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    Syntha,

    Same. I read the name and thought, wow they’re posting something unrelated for once if it’s on Technology.

    Nope lmaooo

    Ghoelian,

    …ok?

    TrickDacy, (edited )

    Look at this person’s post history. If they do anything in life but post about Israel I’d be surprised

    Edit: lol at the downvotes

    Linkerbaan,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    Last time you said I was only posting negative things about Biden because I was a Russian troll. Weird you’re seeing other patterns now.

    And there’s plenty of other posts where you magically never show up concern trolling

    TrickDacy,

    I definitely am not saying you aren’t a paid Russian troll, not sure wtf you’re saying

    You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly

    Linkerbaan,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly

    The projection is astounding do you happen to live in israel?

    TrickDacy,

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    Linkerbaan,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    You didn’t answer the question so I’ll take that as a yes

    TrickDacy,

    It’s an incredibly stupid question

    Mastengwe,

    It’s ALWAYS a stupid question. Now he’s got a little fan club following him around to white-knight everyone that calls him out.

    TrickDacy,

    Yeah it feels weird to get a ton of downvotes for just pointing out that this dude posts several times daily about Israel and nothing else.

    It’s weird if nothing else, for someone to do that… And then be defended for it.

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