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I'm happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it's a lot at stake.

Google basically says "Trust us". What a joke.

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[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 292 points 1 year ago (3 children)

WEI can potentially be used to impose restrictions on unlawful activities on the internet, such as downloading YouTube videos and other content, ad blocking, web scraping, etc.

Not one of those things is illegal.

Some are against a site’s TOS and some are outright fine.

[–] TheHighRoad@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the most disturbing "boring dystopia" thing yet.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's bullsh*t by the author of the article.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well ai scrapping is against copyright.

[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Scraping itself is not illegal. It's not until an AI generates a copyrighted IP that it becomes an issue.

It's like if I were trying to start an art business. You come to me and ask me to draw a princess. I've never seen a princess before, so I go online and look up images of princesses to get an idea what to draw. I go back to the studio and draw you a picture of Snow White.

Me looking up princess images is fine. It's only when I sell a Disney® IP without their permission that it becomes illegal. And, even then, it's a civil matter, not criminal.