Technology

That all sounds very vague to me, and I don’t expect it to be captured properly by law any time soon.

It already has been captured, properly in law, in most places. We can use the US as an example: Both intellectual property and real property have laws already that cover these very items.

What does it mean for you and how is it different from being accessed by a user?

Well, does a user burn up gigawatts of power, to access my site every time? That's a huge different.

Imagine you host a weather forecast. If that information is public, what kind of compensation do you expect from anyone or anything who accesses that data?

Depends on the terms of service I set for that service.

Is it okay for a person to access your site?

Sure!

Is it okay for a script written by that person to fetch data every day automatically?

Sure! As long as it doesn't cause problems for me, the creator and hoster of said content.

Would it be okay for a user to dump a page of your site with a headless browser?

See above. Both power usage and causing problems for me.

Would it be okay to let an LLM take a look at it to extract info required by a user?

No. I said, I do not want my content and services to be used by and for LLMs.

Have you heard about changedetection.io project?

I have now. And should a user want to use that service, that service, which charges 8.99/month for it needs to pay me a portion of that, or risk having their service blocked.

There no need to use it, as I already provide RSS feeds for my content. Use the RSS feed, if you want updates.

If some of these sound unfair to you, you might want to put a DRM on your data or something.

Or, I can just block them, via a service like Cloud Flare. Which I do.

Would you expect a compensation from me after reading your comment?

None. Unless you're wanting to access if via an LLM. Then I want compensation for the profit driven access to my content.