纽约时报等媒体起诉 Brave 涉嫌抓取内容
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
纽约时报等媒体在曼哈顿联邦法院起诉浏览器 Brave，指控其用未具名爬虫建立超过 300 亿网页的索引，使出版商无法屏蔽。诉状还针对 Brave 绕过付费墙、屏蔽出版商广告却销售自家广告的做法，纽约时报寻求禁令和赔偿。同日 Daily News、Chicago Tribune 和 Orlando Sentinel 另行提起类似诉讼。
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Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
“In this way, Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content to third parties,” the suit reads. It says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
The suit also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls and the company’s practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own.
Founded in 2015, Brave has raised roughly $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers. The Times seeks an injunction and damages.
Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.