Source: Hacker News
Article note: Apparently the AI douches are scraping the OSM web frontends via API instead of just ...downloading the dataset. Which is Free.
They're doing surreptitious shit like cloaking their UAs and IPs because they know their behavior is generally unacceptable, and in doing so making it expensive for the hosts of free content they're perfectly allowed to download. That they're hoping to make money from without giving anything back.
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