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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 42 points 4 months ago (7 children)

5M to protect against scraping? That sounds... a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn't sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!

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