By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Treating AI training as "theft" creates harms whose blast radius extends well beyond creative workers' livelihoods. Scraping is a *hugely beneficial* activity. 46/ 1222
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026If scraping - taking a vast corpus of copyrighted works without permission - is theft, then every search engine is a crime, unless it can afford to license "search indexing rights" from every site on the internet. 47/ 1210
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026There's exactly *one* company that could pull that off: Google, a rapacious tech monopolist that is - not coincidentally - one of the leaders of the movement to beggar every creative worker. 48/ 1231
