The project maintainer, Zedeus, runs the most or second-most popular instance, and I assume his lawyers decided that was okay.
replyHost the infra in countries unfriendly to the US and its legal framework apparatus. Continually package the archive as torrents for distribution globally.
replyX already knows who the maintainer is and could easily go after him.
replyThey will have to prove he’s operating it, and someone else can orchestrate. Anna’s Archive, Z Lib, Archive.today, Tor exit node patterns.
replyPut a tip jar out, let’s get archiving. “You can just do things.”
Except this is settled case law. LinkedIn tried and lost against scrapers.
replyThat was a case of scraping explicitly public data that was already available to the general public without any extra effort.
replyWhich is exactly what Twitter is?
replyno twitter requires a login
replyI think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.
replyThat is still a form of publicly available.
replyExplain to me why that matters at all in an ethical sense. Especially given the scraping / pirating that's gone on by all of these companies in the last number of years.
replyWhen have ethics ever mattered in law?
replyWho cares this is a subthread about legal advice.
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