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spiderfarmertoday at 1:46 PM7 repliesview on HN

If someone hands out cookies in the supermarket, are you allowed to grab everything and leave?


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drfloyd51today at 2:12 PM

Odd thing about cookies… they disappear after one serving.

Websites are an endless stream of cookies.

The analogy doesn’t hold.

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bengaletoday at 2:38 PM

It’s interesting to see twists on the old anti-piracy arguments recycled for anti-ai.

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falcor84today at 1:58 PM

That really depends, but the quick answer is that according to our human social contract, we'd just ask "how many can I take?". Until now, the only real tool to limit scrapers has been throttling, but I don't see any reason for there not to be a similar conversational social contract between machines.

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GaggiXtoday at 1:47 PM

I will copy the supermarket and paste it somewhere else.

I'm also going to download a car.

Bendertoday at 5:45 PM

If someone hands out cookies in the supermarket, are you allowed to grab everything and leave?

Depends on the trust level of your society. where the store resides.

The internet is a cesspool of vagrants, thieves, mentally unstable, people and software with no impulse control, pirates and that is just talking about corporations. It gets so much worse with individuals.

pbasistatoday at 2:17 PM

This is a dishonest analogy. In your example, there is only a limited amount of cookies available. While there is no practical limit on the amount of time a certain digital media can be viewed.

You are allowed to take one cookie. But you are allowed to view a public website multiple times if you so want.

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