UPDATE, Nov. 22: Within hours of publication of this article, this site was taken offline and we received a flurry of emails from Hostinger International's abuse team. "We would like to inform you that we have suspended the abusive website (boredbat.com) permanently due to the repetitive infringement cases." They have now permanently shuttered the site, and say they are "reviewing" their policies to ensure such situations are handled faster and more effectively in future.

Last week, we identified a major criminal enterprise operating a website that has been stealing articles from reputable news sites around the world, including this one, for at least three and a half years.

Each day, they post dozens of articles, stolen from media outlets including The Guardian, Associated Press, CBC, CTV, CityNews, The Globe and Mail and a number of small outlets including Canada’s National Observer, Nunatsiaq News and Ricochet. Every single piece of content on the site is attributed to an AI-generated journalist named ‘Jesse Cox,’ and every single piece of content on this site is stolen.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see anyone refusing to take the site down. They contacted the hosting company, and a few days later the hosting company took it down. If this is the quality of journalism they’re trying to protect, I don’t think any value was lost.