Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers
Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers
X Corp. lawsuit says unidentified scrapers forced Twitter to impose rate limits.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
I like this "sue everything" stage of failing.
"Musk sues capitalism"
Oh shit hope he wins
The "blame everyone but myself" era of MElon's failure.
Musk really caught the Trump virus didn't he? What next, running for president?
Thank got he's not a natural born citizen.
See: SCO Group's secretly Microsoft-backed lawsuits against Novell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group%2C_Inc._v._Novell%2C_Inc.
...and if you don't believe me about being, "secretly backed by Microsoft":
http://techrights.org/2009/08/07/sco-and-anti-linux-microsoft-lawsuits/
Maybe if Twitter provided a reasonably priced API, people wouldn't have to resort to scrapers.
Scrapers aren't ever going to use an API, but Twitter could have just blocked unrecognized traffic if they wanted. I'm sure it's covered by the TOS.
Wasn't their own webapp DDOSing their site last week?
Yes. Yes it was. Lol.
Yes. They had to reverse that because they fucked it up so bad. This seems like the follow up to that - they couldn't block people from accessing their data without making it worthless, so now they're going to harass anyone getting their data without paying through the nose for it, even though it has to be publicly available to be useful, in hopes that it will force idiots to pay in.
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Pretty sure Elon knows this is unwinnable. Data scraping isn't illegal, unless you can prove that the scrapers intended to cause harm to Twitter in the process. He's doing this to harass whoever made him make an embarrassing mistake with the rate limits. He has a history of spending a stupid amount of money to (unsuccessfully) save face.
Also maybe twitter could show damages (and even then) but what the fuck kinda damages would this company have to be able to have a valid case?
Yeah each scrape is probably just as efficient as a page load (if not more due to caching).
You can't complain about other people impairing user experience when you've had like 3 different instances of tanking the servers all by yourself.
It is amazing to remember what Twitter was before Musk, and what it is now. This is one bloke, supposedly a business genius
"You can't impair the user experience! Only I can do that!" -Elon "Emerald Mine Money" Musk
Is this like the moment in the dictatorship when the enemy is some outside force and not the incompetence of the leadership?
The Gang Gets Sued By Elon Musk
Suing people who are using his service. Peak moron move.
Hahaha oh man. This is literally ‘no u’ in lawsuit form.
Brilliant.
I wonder how long til Spez tries this. Lol.
Musk is ruining Twitter so much now.
The failing to pay your bills is impairing the user experience.
That and continuing to cater to brain-rotted conservatives.