纽约时报等媒体起诉 Brave 涉嫌抓取内容并转售给 AI 公司
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
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纽约时报周一在曼哈顿联邦法院起诉隐私浏览器公司 Brave，指控其抓取该报受版权保护的内容并非法分发给 Anthropic、Perplexity、Mistral、xAI 和 Cohere 等客户。
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同日，Daily News、Chicago Tribune 和 Orlando Sentinel 也提起类似诉讼。诉状称 Brave 用未具名的爬虫建立了超过 300 亿网页的索引，使出版商无法屏蔽，并将其比作“窃贼”和向第三方出售盗版内容的“AI 销赃者”。诉讼还针对 Brave 绕过付费墙的浏览器功能，以及屏蔽出版商广告、销售自家广告的做法。纽约时报请求法院颁布禁令并赔偿损失，Brave 暂未回应置评请求。
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11:19 AM PST · November 2, 2026
The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
The New York Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims, likens Brave to a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” for AI companies.
“In this way, Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content to third parties,” the suit reads. It says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
The suit also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls and the company’s practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own.
Founded in 2015, Brave has raised roughly $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers. The Times seeks an injunction and damages.
Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.