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2 months agoThe company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
Yeah, wouldn’t want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.
There’s maybe a bit of an argument here if Sling is subsidizing their low prices with losses or debt or revenue from other projects. And let’s be real here… that’s absolutely what they’re doing, cause that’s what they ALL do. Offer services at unsustainable prices, in the hope of cornering a chunk of the market, and exploiting it for profit, later.