May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
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    6 months ago

    allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.

    I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.

    • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      DRM manages rights for products you own. Twitter does not own your posts. Simple.

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      If shitter had won this it would have enabled a raft of lawsuits and redefined section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

      Both companies are of course garbage

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    For a second I was weirded out because it appeared you had posted something not hyper-focused on Israel.

    (And yes yes you caught me – I simply adore genocide) /s just in case

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Look at this person’s post history. If they do anything in life but post about Israel I’d be surprised

    • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Same. I read the name and thought, wow they’re posting something unrelated for once if it’s on Technology.

      Nope lmaooo

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Last time you said I was only posting negative things about Biden because I was a Russian troll. Weird you’re seeing other patterns now.

      And there’s plenty of other posts where you magically never show up concern trolling

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I definitely am not saying you aren’t a paid Russian troll, not sure wtf you’re saying

        You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          6 months ago

          You’re obsessed AF and that’s putting it mildly honestly

          The projection is astounding do you happen to live in israel?

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Now just say some self serving bullshit about how you’re doing your part to help Palestinians and we have linnkerrbaann bingo!

            Excuse me for interrupting your 13 posts for today’s segment of the campaign

                • Mastengwe@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  It’s ALWAYS a stupid question. Now he’s got a little fan club following him around to white-knight everyone that calls him out.

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used “risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The judge also said X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” in copyrighted content that X’s users made available to the public.

    Based.

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Alsup is one of the few judges who actually bothers to have a clue about what they’re doing.