Re: Captchas on Cloudflare-Proxied Sites

[nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Yes, many sites are currently getting DDoSed.

I remain continually surprised that none of them are attempting legal 
action. Proxy operators can be subpoenad and forced to log. The FSF 
surely has lawyers.

The FSF has provided no evidence they have anything to do with AI, either.

The FSF is also persistently wrong about a lot of things, such as the 
idea that Anubis is malware, and shouldn't be cited as an authority on 
anything except perhaps the text of the GPL.


On 7/07/25 11:49, niels=nanog--- via NANOG wrote:
> * nanog () immibis com [Sun 06 Jul 2025, 20:46 CEST]:
> > As far as I'm aware, or as far as anyone's ever made me aware when I 
> > asked, there remains zero evidence that the high-intensity 
> > high-anonymity bots some sites are seeing have anything to do with AI.
> >
> > If they are AI, a court just ruled that AI scraping is fair use, so 
> > maybe you should offer them a zipped copy of your site and they won't 
> > have to scrape it.
> >
> > The actual reason for CAPTCHAs is revenue. Site operators would like 
> > to give a zipped copy of their sites to OpenAI - for $100,000. And 
> > they want that to be the only way OpenAI can get a copy.
>
> The FSF disagrees: 
> https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks
>
>
>     -- Niels.
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