Comment by xena

13 hours ago

Honestly, I figure that being on the front page of Hacker News like this is more than shame enough to get a human from the common sense department to read and respond to the email I sent politely asking them to stop scraping my git server. If I don't get a response by next Tuesday, I'm getting a lawyer to write a formal cease and desist letter.

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Aurornis  12 hours ago

Someone from Amazon already responded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751729

> If I don't get a response by next Tuesday, I'm getting a lawyer to write a formal cease and desist letter.

Given the details, I wouldn’t waste your money on lawyers unless you have some information other than the user agent string.

amarcheschi  13 hours ago

It's computer science, nothing changes on corpo side until they get a lawyer letter.

And even then, it's probably not going to be easy

gazchop  13 hours ago

No one gives a fuck in this industry until someone turns up with bigger lawyers. This is behaviour which is written off with no ethical concerns as ok until that bigger fish comes along.

Really puts me off it.