Anti-bot Challenge Page Blocks Access
Summary
The BAILII EUECJ case database is protected by Anubis, a Proof-of-Work anti-bot system, which blocks access to the underlying case C81124. The page explains the technical rationale: preventing AI companies from aggressively scraping the server causes downtime for legitimate users. No court decision, ruling, or regulatory content is accessible.
“This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.”
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GovPing monitors BAILII Europe Recent Decisions for new courts & legal regulatory changes. Every update since tracking began is archived, classified, and available as free RSS or email alerts — 63 changes logged to date.
What changed
The BAILII Europe Recent Decisions feed for EUECJ case C81124 displays a technical anti-bot challenge page (Anubis Proof-of-Work) rather than case content. The page is generated by the website administrator to protect server resources against AI scraping. No legal, regulatory, or court decision content is available.
Legal database operators, researchers, and automated systems seeking EU court decisions should note that BAILII has deployed Proof-of-Work challenges that block headless browser access. Alternative access methods or direct court registry queries may be required.
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Apr 23, 2026GovPing captured this document from the original source. If the source has since changed or been removed, this is the text as it existed at that time.
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You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate.
Please note that Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable. Please disable JShelter or other such plugins for this domain.
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