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There's a bit difference between breaking a scraper and sending Cease and Desist letters.

Also, blocking scraping is very rich (and expectedly hypocritical) for an AI company, which SpaceX is now.



Google has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well.

And of course, Google is an AI company, too.


It was the RIAA, not Google

It failed because it didn’t make any technical sense. The RIAA was trying to argue that YouTube’s proof-of-work JavaScript challenges were some kind of DRM and by running JavaScript YouTube-dl was circumventing DRM


Wasn't it a DMCA takedown actually?


There are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?




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