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How do you monetize a robot?

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Establish contractual damages in a ToS for the site. Prove violation and offender. Take to court and collect damages.

Converting the effort into cash is tough, but the strategy exists.

Project HoneyPot is an API which allows any website to do this for honeypot email addresses which are injected the website, along with a ToS which says:

> By continuing to access the Website, You acknowledge and agree that each email address the Website contains has a value not less than US $50 derived from their relative secrecy.[1]

[1] https://www.projecthoneypot.org/terms_of_use.php

Has that ever worked? I can't find any record of judgments one way or the other, on their website or elsewhere.

I know ProjectHoneyPot was pushing a $x billion litigation against a spammer. I don't remember if/how that was resolved.

This guy[1] apparently spent years just suing email spammers and occasionally winning.

[1] https://www.danhatesspam.com/index.html

I also found the $1 billion lawsuit (against a bunch, not just one spammer, I believe), and could also not find any sort of resolution - not in legal docs, news pages, or project honeypot itself.

That's a good question. Even better if Facebook can pay me some money :P

dont know whether the facebook bots execute javascript - https://www.rdegges.com/2017/how-to-monetize-your-website-wi...

If it runs javascript, get it to mine bitcoins for you?

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