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flag SerpApi asks a court to dismiss Google’s DMCA lawsuit, arguing Google itself scrapes the web and SerpApi only accesses public data humanely.

flag SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google’s lawsuit alleging DMCA violations, arguing that Google itself is the world’s largest web scraper and that SerpApi only accesses publicly available data by mimicking human behavior. flag SerpApi contends its methods, such as solving CAPTCHAs and JavaScript challenges, do not circumvent technological protection measures as defined by the DMCA and are consistent with how search engines operate. flag The company asserts that Google lacks copyright interest in most search results and that its lawsuit is an attempt to protect its business model rather than enforce copyright law. flag The case hinges on whether Google’s anti-scraping measures qualify as protected technological protections under the DMCA.

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