The difficulty isn’t in establishing legal precedence, the difficulty is in the proof. How do you prove that your data is distinguishable from any of the other countless people who have had their data scraped?
I don’t think it’s bad to set yourself up for a future payday, but it will take a lot of work from someone else in order to see it pay off.
Lol you think a link is going to stop anyone scraping Lemmy data for AI training?
No, what it means is that if they can prove someone scraped their data and used it for commercial gain - they can sue them for real money.
I am skeptical.
There’s nothing to be skeptical about.
The difficulty isn’t in establishing legal precedence, the difficulty is in the proof. How do you prove that your data is distinguishable from any of the other countless people who have had their data scraped?
I don’t think it’s bad to set yourself up for a future payday, but it will take a lot of work from someone else in order to see it pay off.