This. The Internet was a better place when people hosted things they wanted to share at home or on their ISP's servers, without the expectation of making money.
reply> You take your site off the public internet and paywall it off
replyI did that. I even printed and bound it in a bunch of dead trees and put it up for sale. The LLMs still stole it.
Paywalling off the site solves the problem of monetizing bot traffic, any bot crawling your pages paid you to be there, but it can't fix the plagiarism/copyright infringement problem
replyWell... They paid someone to be there, not necessarily you.
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