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.
AVA/NHI: asshole vs asshole, no humans involved.
No matter who wins here, everyone loses
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