Comment by toomuchtodo
2 years ago
Independent scrapers can launder the data between Reddit and AI consumers. The only folks this hurts is users seeking info via search engines and folks willing to kowtow to rules that are potentially low impact to evade. Next steps would be (from an adversarial perspective) browser extensions that stream back data for ingestion similar to Recap for Pacer [1].
[1] https://free.law/recap/faq
(full disclosure: assisting someone pursuing regulatory action against reddit in the EU for a separate issue from scraping, it's a valuable resource, but the folks who own and control it are meh)
Scrapings laundering. Do we have a term for this?
Yes, right in the law - "fair use"
Even more basic, it's free speech. The data itself is public domain so your free speech is not restricted and you don't need fair use excemptions for those restrictions. On the the access through the official system is restricted.