Illegal botnets aren't new. Are they currently shutdown regularly? (I'm actually asking, I don't know)
> If we made not following robots.txt illegal in certain jurisdictions, and blocked all IP addresses not from those jurisdictions
That sounds kinda like the balkanization of the internet. It's not without some cost. I don't mean financially, but in terms of eroding the connectedness that is supposed to be one of the internet's great benefits.
Illegal botnets aren't new. Are they currently shutdown regularly? (I'm actually asking, I don't know)
> If we made not following robots.txt illegal in certain jurisdictions, and blocked all IP addresses not from those jurisdictions
That sounds kinda like the balkanization of the internet. It's not without some cost. I don't mean financially, but in terms of eroding the connectedness that is supposed to be one of the internet's great benefits.