Patreon partners with Cloudflare to block AI scraping bots, raising questions about content ownership in the agentic web

Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI scraping bots using Cloudflare's Crawl Control. The article notes Cloudflare's stablecoin-powered pay-per-crawl model is reshaping the creator economy. This raises questions about content ownership in the agentic web, highlighting the intersection of blockchain-based payments and AI content protection.