this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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@[email protected], let me break it down to you as simply as I can:
Reddit comments are copyrighted material.
Reddit ToS means reddit can do whatever they want with these comments, you don't have the rights to these comments.
Scraping and mirroring reddit comments to start a competitor, therefore, is copyright violation, and is illegal.
You don't even have plausible deniability because you outright admitted, multiple times, that you are mirroring reddit comments to start a competitor.
Reddit's army of lawyers can find you through your domain registrar, and will make an example out of you.
Every instance that federates with yours can also get sued for hosting copyrighted material.
Please stop.
Wasn't reddit trying to claim that they own everyone's comments pretty universally decried? As in the reason half of us are here is because they decided they owned everyone's comments (so they could sell it to the AI trainers) and users said 'fuck off, it's my comment and I'll delete it'. There are plenty of reddit rehosters already, how is this different legally?
Directly from Reddit's user agreement when you sign up for an account there.
So like it or not, they have the rights to whatever you post there already.
Because these were noninteractive front ends, none of them with a creator who is insane enough to publicly declares that they are scraping reddit to start a competitor and explicitly to harm reddit's financial interests.
Fair point, though just because you put something in an EULA that doesn't make it enforceable or even legal. Explicitly stating that you want to take down the company isn't going to do you any favours though.
Wow, great fearmongering.
Also in some jurisdictions it is not only unenforceable, but straight illegal(Canada?).
And you know reddit and Conde Nast will actually do this, because everyone here already knows that Steve Huffman is very, very petty.