No it wouldn’t have.

Licensing isn’t 1 sided. You have to have both parties AGREE to the license.

In this case it’s just text on each message.

The reason OpenAI was able to scrape the internet largely consequence free is because they never agreed to the ToS of the websites, thus they are not bound by those terms.

I agree that it isn’t right or morally correct, but legally it’s okay.

Additionally, by signing up to Lemmy, they grant certain rights and privileges to their instance and others due to agreeing to the license.

In fact, lemmy could make it easier for scrapers, as lemmy will happily deliver content to your instance, simplifying scraping.

Then what’s the point? It doesn’t stop scrapers

You know that license doesn’t do anything, right?

Additionally gasoline degrades after some time and would be mostly useless after 4-5 years without substantial additives and work to bring it back into shape.

I believe kerosine can last up to 10yrs

The banks would reverse the transactions.

If the foreign government pays you, you can take the money and move to that country

Can’t they fly around? Nearby can be reach in a multitude of ways

I don’t understand why it’s normal procedure to fly over an active airport with a helicopter.

That seems destined to have issues

Can’t they just fly around it?