Discord drops the hammer on data-scraping 'Spy.pet' website, says it is 'considering appropriate legal action'

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80.

posted to Discord and was offering them for sale, Discord has banned multiple accounts connected to the site, which has now gone offline.

"Our Safety team has been diligently investigating this activity, and we identified certain accounts that we believe are affiliated with the Spy.pet website, which we have subsequently banned," a Discord rep told 404 Media. A Spy.pet administrator acknowledged that Discord had banned at least some of its bots, but said the server counter on the website had zeroed out because of a rewrite to Spy.pet's code. They also said the disappearance of the website was unrelated to Discord's actions, and denied that Spy.pet was meant as a"tool to be used for harassment," despite reportedly offering the scraped content to Kiwi Farms, a site known for stalking, doxxing, and harassment.

 

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