← Back to context Comment by inigyou 13 hours ago Why aren't we litigating against scrapers, anyway? DDoS is a felony. 5 comments inigyou Reply miki123211 21 minutes ago Because they're all in countries who would ignore such litigation. ekidd 13 hours ago Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners. inigyou 13 hours ago If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them. afdbcreid 7 hours ago But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that). 1 reply →
ekidd 13 hours ago Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners. inigyou 13 hours ago If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them. afdbcreid 7 hours ago But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that). 1 reply →
inigyou 13 hours ago If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them. afdbcreid 7 hours ago But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that). 1 reply →
afdbcreid 7 hours ago But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that). 1 reply →
Because they're all in countries who would ignore such litigation.
Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual site owners.
If you block Brazil, they'll find an alternative, maybe then you can sue them.
But they operate from neither. You can at most sue the one renting them IP addresses. Which will do basically nothing.
(Also, blocking a whole country is likely not what you do, but you probably know that).
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