The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave for scraping content and bypassing paywalls

1. 15:38
   X@NitishWeb3· Discussion

   NYT SUES BRAVE OVER AI SCRAPING The New York Times, Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed suits again…(opens the original post in a new tab)
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   X@ChakibBouabd· Discussion

   Source: https://t.co/bfdhiVHw4Y(opens the original post in a new tab)
3. 15:04
   X@0xLogicrw· Discussion

   The New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel each filed two lawsuits, alleging that Brave scraped news without authorization and then provided it through a paid API to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity and Mistral for model training or answering…(opens the original post in a new tab)
4. 15:01
   X@ParawayneCN· Discussion

   The "privacy browser" was reported by The New York Times — the charge is acting as a middleman for AI companies. The Times sued Brave on Monday: alleging it crawled more than 30 billion web pages to build Index, then sold access to Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, Cohere…(opens the original post in a new tab)
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   X@manolomarcosp· Discussion

   The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the out…(opens the original post in a new tab)
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   X@TheThreatWire· Discussion

   New York Times and Other Publishers Sue Brave Over Alleged Copyright Infringement https://t.co/LoNhiYbzp6(opens the original post in a new tab)
7. 14:05
   X@innoworkspro· Discussion

   The New York Times is suing Brave, saying the browser maker scraped its journalism and sold access to AI companies incl…(opens the original post in a new tab)
8. 13:22
   X@leonyann777· Discussion

   The New York Times sues Brave: alleging it crawled more than 30 billion web pages to build an index, then sold it to Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere, and also used "paywall blocking" to let users bypass subscriptions; the complaint calls it a "fence" for AI. Previously it sued over training models publicly…(opens the original post in a new tab)
9. 12:37
   X@looismes· Discussion

   Hot topic🔥 This time the New York Times did not sue an AI company; instead it sued a browser that "supplies" AI companies. On November 2, the New York Times, together with the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, sued Brave in Manhattan federal court: alleging that it used unidentified crawlers to build more than 30 billion pages of…(opens the original post in a new tab)
10. 12:33
    X@sumjitg· Discussion

    The NYT sued a browser, not a model maker. It alleges Brave scraped paywalled content and fed it to AI companies. The…(opens the original post in a new tab)
11. 12:14
    X@nordicinst· Discussion

    New York Times @nytimes: Tech company Brave plundered Daily News' content and resold it to A.I. giants: copyright lawsu…(opens the original post in a new tab)
12. 11:47
    X@SINERD16· Discussion

    The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune are taking legal action against the privacy focused web browser company Brav…(opens the original post in a new tab)
13. 11:08
    X@SinghalPratul· Discussion

    4. 🔐 NYT sues Brave over AI scraping Times plus three papers allege a 30B page index sold to AI firms Anthropic, Perple…(opens the original post in a new tab)
14. 10:57
    X@Robby_Seventeen· Discussion

    The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/…(opens the original post in a new tab)
15. 10:29
    X@ashley· Discussion

    New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/…(opens the original post in a new tab)
16. 10:22
    PPC Land

    The New York Times and three newspapers sue Brave over AI answers and ad blocking

    On November 2, 2026, The New York Times, together with the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel, separately sued Brave Software in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that it included newspaper content in its search index and sold it to AI companies, reproduced paywalled articles through Ask Brave's AI answers, and used the browser's paywall-blocking feature to bypass subscriptions and replace ads. Each case lists five claims, including direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA circumvention, and unjust enrichment under New York state law. The complaints state that the LLM Context interface once returned 1291 of the 1295 words of a Times article verbatim, and that Ask Brave reproduced a Chicago Tribune article of more than 1200 words. The New York Times states that it sent letters demanding that the conduct stop on August 11, 2025 and April 13, 2026; Brave has not yet responded in court. Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere are listed as API customers but are not defendants.

17. 09:19
    X@chenYijl· Discussion

    More than 30 billion web pages, and in the end they all went to court. On November 2, The New York Times sued Brave in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it quietly amassed this index with a crawler that website owners could neither detect nor block. The index was not amassed for nothing: the complaint says Brave sold paid access to Anthrop…(opens the original post in a new tab)
18. 09:11
    X@DailyAILabo· Discussion

    Source: The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls (The Verge) https://www.theverge.com…(opens the original post in a new tab)
19. 09:02
    Unite.AI

    Brave faces two publisher lawsuits over AI use of news content

    《纽约时报》公司与 New York Daily News、Chicago Tribune、Orlando Sentinel 的出版方于 2026 年 11 月 2 日分别向联邦法院起诉 Brave Software，指控其通过搜索索引、AI 服务和浏览器未经授权复制并分发新闻内容。纽约时报公司的诉状称，公司从未授权 Brave 访问、复制或分发其内容，也未获得补偿，诉状列出逾 1000 万件已登记作品，涵盖 The New York Times、The Athletic、Cooking、Games 与 Wirecutter。另一份提交至纽约南区联邦地方法院的诉状称，涉案已登记报纸版面包含 200 万篇以上文章。两份诉状都引用 Brave 的说法，即其索引收录超过 300 亿个网页、每天新增数百万个页面，并提到 Brave 未公开其爬虫名称。

20. 08:26
    X@Tesla_Optimus_K· Discussion

    The New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping The Times filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday. A second suit fro…(opens the original post in a new tab)
21. 07:14
    X@xiaoanlab· Discussion

    The New York Times sued Brave. It alleges that Brave used a crawler to build an index of 30 billion pages, sold it to AI companies, and bypassed paywalls; three other newspapers filed similar lawsuits the same day. At present these are only the plaintiffs' allegations, the court has not ruled, and Brave has not responded. For people working on search and AI data, the index…(opens the original post in a new tab)
22. 07:02
    X@stlbizjdrew· Discussion

    New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/…(opens the original post in a new tab)
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    X@SISpotlight· Discussion

    🚨 𝗡𝗬𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan over Brav…(opens the original post in a new tab)
24. 06:28
    X@vibes_output· Discussion

    ⑥ The New York Times and others have sued the browser Brave for copyright infringement. The claim is that it provided an index of collected articles to AI companies such as Anthropic and Perplexity for a fee. These are all allegations in the complaint, and…(opens the original post in a new tab)
25. 06:14
    X@JPTechHubNews· Discussion

    The New York Times is suing Brave. ⚖ NYT, the Chicago Tribune and other papers allege Brave sold its scraped search in…(opens the original post in a new tab)
26. 06:03
    Hacker NewsHacker News· Discussion

    New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over content scraping(opens the original post in a new tab)
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    X@ReutersLegal· Discussion

    New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-times-…(opens the original post in a new tab)
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    X@Reuters· Discussion

    New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights https://reut.rs/4iRIwEC(opens the original post in a new tab)
29. 04:56
    X@Web3__Youth· Discussion

    New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping of its journalism Hours later, the publishers of the New York Daily News, t…(opens the original post in a new tab)
30. 04:37
    X@thewhitepageEN· Discussion

    The New York Times sues Brave browser over AI scraping and paywall bypass What happened? The New York Times and other…(opens the original post in a new tab)
31. 04:18
    X@jbhall56· Discussion

    The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the out…(opens the original post in a new tab)
32. 03:32
    X@techwithjoe_io· Discussion

    The New York Times and other outlets have sued web browser Brave over alleged content scraping: https://techcrunch.com/…(opens the original post in a new tab)
33. 03:19
    TechCrunch AI

    The New York Times and other media outlets sue browser company Brave, alleging scraping of copyrighted content

    The New York Times sued browser company Brave on Monday in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it scraped the newspaper's copyrighted content and illegally distributed it to AI clients; the complaint names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as clients. On the same day, Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel also filed similar lawsuits in Manhattan federal court. The complaint alleges that Brave used unnamed crawlers to build an index of more than 30 billion web pages that publishers cannot block, and describes Brave as both a thief stealing publishers' content and an AI "fence" selling stolen goods to third parties; the lawsuit also targets Brave's paywall-bypassing feature and its practice of blocking publishers' ads while selling its own ads. The New York Times previously sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar allegations; this suit seeks an injunction and damages. Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

34. 02:00
    Hacker NewsHacker News· Discussion

    The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls(opens the original post in a new tab)
35. 01:51
    The Verge AI

    The New York Times sues Brave browser over AI scraping and paywall circumvention

    The New York Times and several publishers have separately sued Brave browser developer Brave Software, alleging that it illegally scraped content for AI training and let users bypass paywalls. According to the complaints by the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave sells paid access to real-time online content in the Brave Index to AI companies, monetizing the scraped website index for them to train models or answer user queries; the complaints allege that Brave provided "stolen copyrighted content" to multiple AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere without ever obtaining publishers' permission or compensation, and also promoted in the browser a paywall-bypass feature that can access "hundreds of top publishers."

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   New York Daily News

   New York Daily News and others file copyright lawsuit, alleging Brave stole content and resold it to AI giants

   The New York Daily News, The New York Times and several newspapers under Tribune Publishing sued Brave Software on Monday in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it scraped paywalled content and resold it to AI companies including Anthropic and Perplexity. The complaint alleges that Brave's index crawled and copied more than 30 billion web pages, neither identifying itself nor providing website owners with a mechanism to block the crawler, and also sold copies of publishers' content to third parties for training AI models and generating answers. The lawsuit cites examples: when a user asked Brave's Ask Brave to show that day's New York Daily News articles, the chatbot listed the headlines of 35 paywalled articles and offered to extract the full text; in another example, the bot copied verbatim and paraphrased a report from the Orlando Sentinel. The lawsuit brings five claims including direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement; Brave did not respond to a request for comment, and the AI companies alleged to have purchased content were not named as defendants.

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   Orlando Sentinel

   Copyright lawsuit alleges Brave scraped Orlando Sentinel content and resold it to AI giants

   The New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, The New York Times and newspapers under Tribune Publishing sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court, alleging that it scraped and resold copyrighted news content to AI companies such as Anthropic and Perplexity. The complaint states that Brave's crawler index scraped more than 30 billion web pages without identifying itself and without providing website owners a blocking mechanism, and that it also provided users with content bypassing paywalls through its browser and sold content to third parties for training AI models. The lawsuit lists five claims of direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, citing as an example that Brave's Ask Brave feature once listed the titles of 35 paywalled articles from The New York Daily News from that day and asked users whether they wanted to scrape the full text. The complaint states that AI companies such as Anthropic, which are alleged to have purchased the content, were not named as defendants, while the same group of newspapers is also suing OpenAI and Microsoft on similar grounds.

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