Reddit v. SerpApi, Oxylabs, AWMProxy and Perplexity, opinion and order on motions to dismiss (31 July 2026) (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 62)
Getting around technical barriers such as CAPTCHAs to scrape copyrighted content can be unlawful circumvention, whatever fair use says about the later use. Text read by OCR of the court's scanned PDF.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“For the foregoing reasons, the Court predominantly denies the motions to dismiss. It sustains the claims (1) brought against both defendants under section 1201(a)(1)(A) of the DMCA, (2) against SerpApi under 1201(a)(2) of the DMCA, and (3) against both defendants for civil conspiracy under New York law.”
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- Reddit v. SerpApi, opinion and order (31 July 2026): the Google v. SerpApi dismissal (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 7 n.3)
- Reddit v. SerpApi, opinion and order (31 July 2026): Reddit's robots.txt and data API terms, as pleaded (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 6)
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