Markus Kniebes says about Crawler918.com:
Well, whoever thinks they're committing trademark violations on their pages or doesn't approve of the procedure for whatever reason, should follow the suggestion to block the number block and put Deny from 12.148.196.128/25 in their htaccess
So, why do I have a problem with this view? Quite simply: whoever believes that the trademark protection approach is actually still being used today to protect trademarks would also believe that lemon swallowtails fold lemons and department heads lead departments. Seriously: trademark protection has become an area where the law as such largely stays out of it, where it's only about processing and enforcing administrative fees, less about protection itself. Many of the quite prominent trademark proceedings in recent times can't be explained any other way.
Therefore, I have problems both with the robot's approach (because it violates pretty much all the guidelines for robots that exist) and with the robot itself. Because it's less about doing something that benefits the online community. Not the community as a whole either—there's supposedly still a life outside the internet, I've been told. This robot is used solely for the benefit of a select few and is thus nothing more than a misuse of the resources I and other operators have made available (of course only insofar as it uses my resources—but I can only block it from my resources).
Certainly, many websites are set up for purely selfish reasons and serve only the interests of those who operate them. But I personally have to actively visit these websites to use them. Or I simply don't. The robot, however, comes by my place. Actively. Like spam. Exactly like spam.