Last.fm's robots.txt include's Asimov's three laws of robotics as URIs

Last.fm embedded Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as URIs in its robots.txt file, a standard used to instruct web crawlers on which site sections to access. The inclusion of the fictional laws, which govern robot behavior, appears to be a symbolic gesture regarding automated access to the music platform. The move highlights ongoing tensions between websites and automated bots over data scraping and user privacy.

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