Billions of scraped Discord messages up for sale

Four billions public Discord messages are for sale on an internet scraping service called Spy.pet.

At first sight there doesn’t seem to be much that is illegal about it. The messages were publicly accessible and there are no laws against scraping data. However, it turns out the site did disregard some laws: more on that later.

To get this amount of data the platform gathered information from 14,201 servers about 627,914,396 users.

The way in which Spy.pet organized the information …

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