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Originally Posted by Buehler445
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It's becoming a problem at all ends of the spectrum. I've blocked 3 different bots at the ChiefsPlanet server level this year because they're just leeching content like crazy. Back when things were crawling here in February or so, I looked, and one IP address had used up about a third of our bandwidth for the month.
Obviously we're a drop in the bucket compared to the situation in the article, but it's definitely shitty that these places can just leech content, costing their hosts money, and profit from it without any compensation to the actual source.