But it stops being trivial. Now to scape websites en mass you have to automate signing up for them, probably paying for it.
And unlike now to sign up you have to agree to a very enforceable EULA.
So instead of going to court with “FunAI read my public website and is making money off it which I don’t think that should be fair use”, you have “FunAI violated a contract they signed and committed fraud by lying on signup”.
Seems to me that’s much easier.
There will always be people who get the content for free somehow. You don’t have to stop 100%. Even stopping 95% would be a lot better than the current 0%.
And unlike now to sign up you have to agree to a very enforceable EULA.
So instead of going to court with “FunAI read my public website and is making money off it which I don’t think that should be fair use”, you have “FunAI violated a contract they signed and committed fraud by lying on signup”.
Seems to me that’s much easier.
There will always be people who get the content for free somehow. You don’t have to stop 100%. Even stopping 95% would be a lot better than the current 0%.