alt Hacker NewsCould this be solved with an EULA and some language that non-human readers will be billed at $1 per page? Make all users agree to it. They either pay up or they are breaching contract.
Is this viable?
Replies
kstrauser • last Friday at 4:15 PM
Most of my scraper traffic came from China and Brazil. How am I going to enforce that?
grayhatter • last Friday at 3:30 PM
> Is this viable?
no
for many reasons
Say you have identified a non-human reader, you have a (probably fake) user agent and an IP address. How do you imagine you'll extract a dollar from that?