Meta advertising isn’t just big — it’s massive and still expanding. In 2025, Meta’s advertising ecosystem captured roughly 42% of all global social media ad spend — an estimated $87 billion — dwarfing ...

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

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Google, Reddit Complaints Allege Texas Web-Scraping Service Violates DMCA Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

Google LLC sued SerpApi LLC for allegedly bypassing its technological protections to scrape copyrighted content from search results, accusing the Texas company of violating a federal digital copyright ...

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