Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over

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Reddit又赢下一场关于AI抓取数据的官司，这回是法官驳回了网络爬虫公司SerpApi的撤诉请求。这个案子最特别的地方在于，Reddit并不直接起诉AI公司抄袭内容，而是把矛头对准了“帮AI绕过防护墙”的中间商——就像你家装了防盗门，有人专门做万能钥匙卖给小偷，现在房东要把卖钥匙的一起告了。事情是这样的：SerpApi被指控帮Perplexity AI偷偷抓取Reddit上不受欢迎的数据。他们没直接翻Reddit的墙，而是绕道通过Google搜索结果来获取内容，相当于不直接闯进你家，而是隔着窗户偷拍。法官认为，Reddit的指控在现阶段是站得住脚的——SerpApi提供了规避技术，Perplexity付费使用。有意思的是，两周前Google自己告同类案件却被法院驳回了，原因是法院觉得Google没证明Reddit曾明确授权过“禁止抓取”。现在两边官司都在打，互联网公司正在用版权法（DMCA）重新划分数据领地。这事对普通用户的影响很实际：以后你在网上发的帖子、评论，可能被谁看、被谁用来训练AI，平台说了算，个人基本没有话语权。同时，将来搜索引擎能搜到的内容也可能变少，因为你常逛的论坛可能都把“门”锁得更紧了。

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results. In his opinion, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that at this early stage, Reddit has plausibly pleaded that there was a conspiracy, with SerpApi providing a product to circumvent Google access controls and Perplexity AI paying for it. Engelmayer’s decision came less than two weeks after another court dismissed a similar action raised by Google, finding that the company had not proven that rights holders, such as Reddit, had ever authorized the search engine to prevent the scraping of protected content. Google told Ars that it planned to amend its complaint to keep its lawsuit alive, but SerpApi told Ars that Google and Reddit were both trying to “use the DMCA to wall off the open Internet by retroactively claiming control over content that they didn’t author and don’t own.”Read full article Comments