"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
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- Google is using the DMCA to sue SerpApi for circumventing anti-scraping technology and selling scraped search results, despite search results not being copyrightable.
- Reddit filed a similar lawsuit against SerpApi and Perplexity, accusing them of scraping Reddit content from Google search results.
- Both companies are leveraging the DMCA as a tool to combat the rise of AI scraping, even though the law was not designed for this purpose.
- The lawsuits aim to block malicious scraping that disrupts rights holders' control over their content and undermines Google's ability to profit from search services.