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-ongoin...
-- Niels.