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HellPot: https://github.com/yunginnanet/HellPot

> Clients (hopefully bots) that disregard robots.txt and connect to your instance of HellPot will suffer eternal consequences. HellPot will send an infinite stream of data that is just close enough to being a real website that they might just stick around until their soul is ripped apart and they cease to exist.

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This doesn't solve their bandwidth costs which is their real problem with these bots.

My 100 mbps upload bandwidth at home is free (apart from the monthly 35€ payment). Useless bots will get stuck downloading from me instead of hogging readthedocs.

I think your ISP will cut you off long before they stop pulling content from you

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