Yes they should really block crawlers or force them to pay. The only way I can think of that they could do is make you have to register an account to access content but that goes against what they originally intended. But these are new times and it’s probably for the best. Wouldn’t be hard to flag obvious AI scrappers.
And the government will be able to easily squash that by tracing the sources. It’s gonna have to be more of an underground darknet that piggybacks off other signals like copper or electrical.
My gaming desktop and basement server uses enough power to be flagged as a grow. Fuck these guys gonna hassle me for being a geek.
Emby Server
382 Shows
30130 Episodes
1703 Movies
24740 Music Albums
Most are downloaded with *arr apps and are random quality. I shoot for 1080 for shows and movies but for the really good stuff that I personally like I will get the 4K version.
My brother who was working on buying a Kia EV6 could see and track its location before even signing the paperwork. All you need is the VIN.
That’s a ton of cooling of the entire grid is used for AC.