diff --git a/Dissertation.md b/Dissertation.md index c2b232a..dd8f8f1 100644 --- a/Dissertation.md +++ b/Dissertation.md @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Correct, but irrelevant. Polite mechanisms aren’t winning either; they’re no A losing game where the other side pays for every move. This is far better than one where the content creator pay's for everything and the scrapers and AI creators pay nothing in return. The Bot and AI Labs gain profitability on the creative works of the victim. The creators have all the rights to protect and control who/m has accesss to their content. ### 5.5 -- What about the legality -Passively serving garbage content (tarpits, poisoned data) to a requesting visitor is not permitted or has ignored the rules (unauthorized access) is not illegal in it's self.You’re only returning what they asked for. The legal risk is the same as serving a slow page. +Passively serving garbage content (tarpits, poisoned data) to a requesting visitor that is not permitted or has ignored the rules (unauthorized access) is not illegal in itself. You’re only returning what they asked for. The legal risk is the same as serving a slow page. #### 5.4.a -- Argument in reality Active attacks like decompression bombs or parser exploits are riskier and would highly recommend seeking legal counsel and proceed with caution as an individual. Bright line: serve garbage, don’t attack; it's on the bot and lab to filter and clean their sources content, not you.