In the last 2 months, ardour.org has banned 1.2M (yes, million) distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository using http instead of git (i.e. AI trawlers).
It's now been nearly a week since we shutdown the web frontend to our git repository, and there are still 22k or so new IP addresses per day trying to hit a site that returns only 404 errors, and the access log shows about one hit every 4-5 seconds.
This AI trawling has to stop! They could just pull the git repo!