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Elon Musk’s X loses lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping / X had claimed that Bright Data scrapes its data, “using elaborate technical measures to evade X Corp.’s anti-scraping technology.”
A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data, and said X "wants it both ways."
X was seeking more than $1 million in damages from unknown defendants over "unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents," according to the case, which was filed in Dallas County. In dismissing the complaint, Judge William Alsup wrote, "X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner's right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users' content." "What is happening now is unprecedented, the implications impact general business, research, AI and beyond," the company said.
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