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Anti-bot Protection Blocks Access to EUECJ Case C67223

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Summary

BAILII deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-bot protection system, on its European Court of Justice case database. The system uses Hashcash-style proof-of-work to deter mass scraping by AI companies. Users must enable JavaScript and disable anti-fingerprinting browser extensions to access case content.

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What changed

BAILII implemented Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-bot protection mechanism, to protect its servers against AI scraping. The system requires users to solve computational puzzles using JavaScript. Users with anti-fingerprinting extensions like JShelter must disable them for the domain.

Legal researchers and compliance professionals accessing European Court of Justice decisions through BAILII should ensure JavaScript is enabled and temporarily disable any browser extensions that may interfere with proof-of-work challenges. The underlying case C67223 remains accessible but requires passing the bot check.

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Apr 21, 2026

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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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Classification

Agency
BAILII
Instrument
Notice
Branch
Independent
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Applies to
Legal professionals
Industry sector
5112 Software & Technology
Activity scope
Legal database access Bot protection
Geographic scope
European Union EU

Taxonomy

Primary area
Data Privacy
Operational domain
IT Security
Topics
Artificial Intelligence

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