Apple sued for allegedly scraping 70 million YouTube videos

Oh no, one of the companies so huge and expansive that they are effectively beyond the reach of litigation jurisdiction. They also know how little they’ll end up paying.

Let’s consider the thieves arithmetic. Make millions if not billions from the scraping. Pay the occasional relatively paltry fine. Not one meaningful individual to be prosecuted..

Please can we now change the laws on taxation and fines?

Europe is currently considering the big four IT companies for their current failures o to meet European legislation, despite their carefully negotiated run in and preparation period.

We need the financial equivalent of cricket bats, hockey sticks, hell, even pitchforks at this time. Let me be the first to vote for Pitchforks!

Google boss: I alone own this stuff even though I didn’t make it, upload it, feature in it, or anything else, because of muh iNtElLeCtUaL pRoPeRtY lAw (that my lobbyists wrote)

So far, has a single legal challenge against scraping ever been successful?

The lawsuit says Apple did more than just link to content. It claims Apple got around YouTube’s protections to download and use videos directly. The creators argue this breaks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans getting past systems meant to protect copyrighted material.

Nah they can lose that lawsuit fuck that. Not about to see DMCA section 1201 used to block everyone from using a YouTube video ever in any other content.

Let them fight.

Devastating that Apple did this and still manages to have the worst AI out there. Was really hoping it was so far behind because it only used “ethical” or licensed data. I guess it’s bad just because. That’s extra embarrassing.