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X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-source-project/5292548
43•giamma•1h ago

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nephihaha•1h ago
Wish I'd known about this years ago.
giamma•59m ago
Possible alternative? https://twitterwebviewer.com/
rwmj•48m ago
Also sotwe.com although you need to filter your javascript pretty heavily to use it safely.
quaintdev•26m ago
At this point just ditch Twitter.
2OEH8eoCRo0•45m ago
Scraping is legal. It's amazing how much these companies benefit from scraping but don't want others to do it.
inigyou•26m ago
Sending a C&D ordering someone to stop doing a legal thing is also legal.
codingdave•21m ago
Civil law is not centered around what is or is not legal. It is about resolving problems that fall outside of criminal law. It is a completely different set of procedures and approach to the law.
Someone1234•21m ago
From my understanding scraping a public website you'd otherwise have access to is legal in the US. However, re-hosting that scrapped copyright content, particularly if it isn't transformative/fair-use (inc. only partial content) is very much either violates copyright, or best case is legally a gray area.

Google got dragged into court for exactly this, and they were summarizing/snipping, so they had a fair-use argument to make. This is a 1:1 reproduction of the content, so the legal arguments on fair-use would be harder to make I suspect.

I've personally used XCancel, and I really like it, but stepping back legally they're on shaky ground if Twitter decides to stop it.

Good4boothee•27m ago
Main discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

And I still can't go over how this title looks like draft version with placeholder, published a bit too fast. How could anyone thing a single letter is good choice for an company/service name?

close04•20m ago
> How could anyone thing a single letter is good choice for an company/service name

In this case, Musk is stuck being his 12 year old self and carrying a 30 year old obsession to use this very cool naming. He finally got the chance.

a4isms•22m ago
Not that it matters, but my use case for Nitter and XCancel was to provide a link to accompany a screen shot when discussing a tweet on Mastodon. Now I'lll just use a screen shot, there is zero chance I will send them direct traffic of any kind.
ChrisArchitect•21m ago
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283
christkv•15m ago
Same strategy as Reddit seems data has too much monetary value
zetanor•8m ago
It's both funny and sad that despite several malicious actions like this, despite wasting a ton of Twitter's social capital and despite years of broken promises (e.g., dealing with bots, bringing back free speech, ending algo/report manipulation), none of the writers and artists whose work I enjoy have even attempted to move away. That's quite a network effect. Maybe the site really was worth $44B.

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X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-o...
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