Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow ...

I tried this Reddit alternative that's friendlier and paywall-free - it's exactly what I've been waiting for

Digg's relaunch comes after Reddit has faced sustained criticism over API lockdowns, heavy‑handed monetization, and data licensing to AI companies. These changes have opened a window for a rival that ...

Reddit and TikTok, with the help of AI, are reshaping how researchers understand substance use

When you think of tools for studying substance use and addiction, a social media site like Reddit, TikTok or YouTube probably ...
Law

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 principles of fair use. A Texas-based web-scraping company faces legal ...
Search Engine Land

SerpAPI calls Reddit lawsuit a threat to the ‘free and open web’

SerpAPI said it will “vigorously defend” itself after being sued by Reddit for allegedly scraping and reselling data from the platform via Google Search results. The response. SerpAPI called Reddit’s ...
cryptopolitan

Perplexity caught red-handed scraping data, Reddit claims

Reddit has sued Perplexity AI for secretly scraping Reddit content despite being blocked. Reddit set a digital “trap” that exposed Perplexity AI’s alleged use of Google’s results to bypass ...
eWeek

Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping Its Data

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...
IPWatchdog

Reddit Dubs Perplexity AI and Data Scraping Companies ‘Would-Be Bank Robbers’

“According to the complaint, Perplexity has admitted that Reddit is one of its ‘top tier sources’ for data, citing an August 2025 Perplexity blog post that said ‘Reddit has emerged as the most cited ...
East Bay Times

Reddit sues AI company Perplexity and others for ‘industrial-scale’ scraping of user comments

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
Reuters

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...