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RE: Illegal Web Scraping: Makes Democratized Data Even More Crucial

in LeoFinance4 months ago

The concerns which you raise are of greater or lesser importance depending on the motivations of the developers. If the motivation is more political/ideological/non-profit driven like open source then it is a hard one to legislate against. Bitcoin itself deflected many attacks due to the fact there was no one person or corporation in charge that could be fined or prosecuted; just an elusive Satoshi Nakamoto.

Remember the encryption schemes that the US government outlawed downloading outside of the USA in the 90s? That kinda fizzled didn't it. If my server is using a VPN and the use of the data collected is not centralized nor profit driven then ideally we are likely to see more fizzling in my opinion.

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The downloading issue, much of that tied to copyright, did fizzle for a couple reasons.

To start, the sheer magnitude of that activity was overwhelming. This is not going to be the case with the developers, not the same numbers.

A second issue is the fact that we were dealing with "crimes" that were mostly civil, i.e people being sued or facing fines. When something is tied to a jail sentence, if can be.

They could easily tie this to espionage or something like that.

As for the open nature and decentralized, I agree with you 1000%. That is why we have to get as much data on permissionless networks as possible.