Comment by PaulRobinson
19 days ago
If they're not respecting robots.txt, and they're causing degradation in service, it's unauthorised access, and therefore arguably criminal behaviour in multiple jurisdictions.
Honestly, call your local cyber-interested law enforcement. NCSC in UK, maybe FBI in US? Genuinely, they'll not like this. It's bad enough that we have DDoS from actual bad actors going on, we don't need this as well.
Every one of these companies is sparing no expense to tilt the justice system in their favour. "Get a lawyer" is often said here, but it's advice that's most easily doable by those that have them on retainer, as well as an army of lobbyists on Capitol Hill working to make exceptions for precisely this kind of unauthorized access .
It's honestly depressing.
Any normal human would be sued into complete oblivion over this. But everyone knows that these laws arn't meant to be used against companies like this. Only us. Only ever us.