Corey Doctorow on web scraping and corporate power.

Facial recognition companies say, “You can’t use copyright to ban scraping without creating a lot of collateral damage.” They’re right too – but what they don’t say is, “On the other hand, a privacy law would put us out of business and leave all the good scraping intact.”

Bad actors don’t tell you their weakness. Thankfully, weakness exist. Exploiting them helps everyone else.