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It's almost as if there should be an international body of laws which covers fraud...


That's not feasible for bots, crawling, IP laws, etc.

Strict fraud could be handled, but everything above is really different per jurisdiction by obvious reasons. There is nothing clearly good or bad in bots, or e.g. pirates, it depends on particular cultural perception. And if one nation thinks that the action is not a crime, it doesn't make sense to them to prosecute such actions for foreign requests.


One problem at a time. A lot of the malicious activity of bots/crawling/etc hide behind plain fraud.

Combat fraud first so you can start to really identify the other more troublesome troublemakers.

Bots? Declare the owner. Lie about the owner? Fraud.

Crawling? Bots.

Intellectual property? That's an entire whole other industry.




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