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Reddit Sues Firms for Illegal Data Scraping Practices

10/25/2025

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Reddit, Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit in New York against Perplexity and data-scraping firms SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy for illegally scraping Reddit user-generated content.
The complaint says the defendants bypassed security and harvested data via Google search results.
Reddit calls this a 'data laundering' economy driven by AI’s demand for quality content.
The case invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect Reddit’s archive and could influence data ownership.

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Reddit, Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit in New York against Perplexity and data-scraping firms SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy for illegally scraping Reddit user-generated content.
The complaint says the defendants bypassed security and harvested data via Google search results.
Reddit calls this a 'data laundering' economy driven by AI’s demand for quality content.
The case invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect Reddit’s archive and could influence data ownership.