Matthew Prince

I think that the more socialist idea is

you know, is actually on the other side, which is, you know, do you let each publisher negotiate themselves or are you effectively creating something which is negotiating, you know, on their on their behalf?

That's where I thought you were to go with it.

And I think that that is the place that you have to figure it out, because if you're a small publisher, if you're the park record in Park City, Utah, you have no idea how much a restaurant review is worth.

And it might be worth it actually might be worth quite a bit that is out there.

And having somebody who can negotiate that on your behalf

is I think going to help the market actually be more fair and more robust.

I tend to think that this is going to be something which the vast majority of it is going to be solved through private transactions.

And there's not much legislative that needs to happen in order to allow this to happen.

It is technically possible, but we think it's actually relatively easy to identify and then block the various AI crawlers that are out there.

We go to war every single day.

We're a cybersecurity company.

First and foremost, we go to war every single day with the Russian, Iranian, North Korean, Chinese hackers.

You know, stopping some nerds with a C Corp in Palo Alto is not that's that's child's play.

You had the the LLM Labyrinth product.

We can do lots of things to make their lives very difficult.

And again, I don't think we need.

a congressional action to do it.

The one place where I do think that we might end up, and I'm hopeful that it doesn't come to this, where I think that there might be a place for some sort of legislative action is going back to Google.

Because again, Google is in this tough spot where they have sort of said that you have to make a choice.