Something appeared suggested as interesting on the places I browse for news. I don't believe this is the usual "share old news" for nothing, this really made me think, in fact... I have forgotten about this.
AI and bots from different companies (including Meta, even Adobe) browse the web, scan content, scrap, and copy what they find in order to train their own software, and they do this FOR FREE without consequences. Recently, this 2025, Reddit accused an AI search engine (Perplexity) "
of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging anti-scraping methods that require substantial investments from both Google and Reddit."
Well, remember Aaron Swartz?
From Wikipedia:
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en.wikipedia.org...]
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT.[14][15] Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,[16] carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.[17] Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison.[18] Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment
We are seeing companies using public content to extremes, pure abuse, and no consequences. I understand the problem is not only legal and corporate, but PUBLIC, because the masses want free stuff, the usual "
just give me the answer, and make it short" without caring who gets hurt.
What do you think?
