When your trusted web scraping tools suddenly stop working and proxies get blocked, what's a data hoarder to do? This comprehensive guide explores practical solutions for maintaining your data collection pipelines in 2026's increasingly hostile scraping environment.
A bombshell court filing alleges NVIDIA contacted Anna's Archive for pirated books to train AI models. This revelation exposes the murky world of AI training data sourcing and raises critical questions about web scraping ethics, copyright boundaries, and corporate responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.
Timing your hardware purchases can make or break your web scraping operations. Learn from data hoarders who navigated the 2025 HDD price surge and discover strategies for optimizing your scraping infrastructure investments.
A federal judge has ordered Anna's Archive to delete terabytes of scraped data. The tech community's overwhelming consensus? They won't. This article dives into the technical, legal, and practical reasons why, and what it reveals about the future of data control.
That 'humble setup' of 50k files isn't shame—it's potential. This guide transforms data hoarding into professional web scraping with proxies, automation, and ethical collection strategies for 2026.
A comprehensive guide to choosing and using proxies for web scraping in 2025. Learn the differences between residential and datacenter proxies, how to avoid detection, and build a reliable scraping infrastructure.
The data preservation community is buzzing about Anna's Archive reportedly backing up Spotify's entire catalog. This technical deep dive explores how such a massive scraping operation works, the proxy infrastructure required, and what it means for digital preservation in 2025.