• Sibbo
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    113 months ago

    Can you steal something that’s stolen?

    • It’s not that they were scraping the data, it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.

      It’s still on midjourney for not putting protections in place to prevent it, though.

      • @turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
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        33 months ago

        it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.

        This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.

        • Yeah, that’s why it’s ultimately on Midjourney for not protecting against that.

          My point was just that the title is misleading and this isn’t a case of them banning a dev account just for scraping. It’s pretty standard to ban accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior, so this really isn’t even news.

    • @Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      53 months ago

      Someone was scraped Midjourney’s gallery website fast enough to cause a mild DoS attack. So they’re kind of mad about that. They don’t seem to have a lot of overhead. They can barely run all of their services from what I understand.