@aidenarata | Are.na

Many people don't consider that when they use the internet, be that making a simple HTML/CSS site, or using a site through a big conglomerate, scrapers are scraping and crawlers are crawling the content unless you've specifically configured  robots.txt  and  no-index  rules to prevent it.

If what emerges from such efforts comes, as Rose puts it, “from regions beyond your control,” then at what point does the finished product transcend your wishes? At what point do you, the creator, lose control?