Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations * TorrentFreak

If only they applied the same rigor to big tech scraping the same content into large language models. I guess the bypass paywall team wasn't big enough to afford the legion of lawyers that Sam Altman and co can summon on demand. We can just wait for chatgpt to serve those articles direct to our search results and nobody will even visit their website, because we live in a world where stealing an article to read is illegal, while stealing all of them for profit is not.

This is actually a pretty bad ruling IG you think about it. What does that make the internet archive?

If they don't want people to bypass the paywall they should require authentication

Tragic, but this functionality can still be done with Ublock origin and/or Noscript extensions