""SerpApi uses automated means to scrape these other services." This generates "billions of artificial requests and then copying and selling the responses. SerpApi does not compensate the services it scrapes for the output or for the costs of responding to the massive burdens their automated processes impose on the services' computer infrastructures. Its scraping invariably violates the services' governing agreements and flouts access restrictions that those services convey to automated crawlers or "bots" through robots.txt instructions.""
""Google argues that its security systems (like SearchGuard) are "technological measures" that control access to copyrighted work. By bypassing them, SerpApi is allegedly violating Section 1201 of the DMCA. Google claims SerpApi is violating Google's Terms of Service, which strictly prohibit automated scraping and the use of proxies to hide one's identity. Google alleges that SerpApi is profiting from Google's massive investment in organizing the world's information without contributing to the ecosystem or respecting the rules.""
Google filed a lawsuit alleging that SerpApi operates a large-scale scraping operation that bypasses Google's security systems to extract search results. SerpApi allegedly generates hundreds of millions of artificial requests, mimics human behavior to evade CAPTCHAs and other defenses, and sells a "Google Search API" to third parties despite no public API being offered. Google contends that scraping imposes massive infrastructure costs, violates service terms and robots.txt restrictions, and circumvents technological measures such as SearchGuard, implicating Section 1201 of the DMCA. Google asserts that SerpApi profits without compensating or contributing to the ecosystem.
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