I don’t consent to my copyrighted material – which is literally everything I write and post online, including this comment – being included in these products. In some cases, I have implicitly consented to allowing this to happen via the EULA of websites I’ve used over the years, but having them actively scraping the web for content means they’re directly bypassing any agreements I may have made with service providers, and that they’re collecting my copyrighted works without my ever having done business of any sort with them.
I haven’t agreed to contribute to their for-profit operation, I’m not being compensated in any way for this participation – whether financially or via the providing of a service – and I don’t believe they have any moral right to decide that I’m going to contribute whether I want to or not.
Consent.
I don’t consent to my copyrighted material – which is literally everything I write and post online, including this comment – being included in these products. In some cases, I have implicitly consented to allowing this to happen via the EULA of websites I’ve used over the years, but having them actively scraping the web for content means they’re directly bypassing any agreements I may have made with service providers, and that they’re collecting my copyrighted works without my ever having done business of any sort with them.
I haven’t agreed to contribute to their for-profit operation, I’m not being compensated in any way for this participation – whether financially or via the providing of a service – and I don’t believe they have any moral right to decide that I’m going to contribute whether I want to or not.
They can fuck right off.