Third-party scrapers are stealing publisher content to order for AI companies
Unscrupulous companies are ignoring Robots.txt warnings and bypassing paywalls.
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Rob Waugh
Rob Waugh is one of Britain's leading technology and science journalists, and has written about business and emerging technology for dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites over the past 25 years
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