I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here.

please argue. please do not remove.

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    9 months ago

    That’s exactly what robot.txt is… they spell out that they don’t want you to access this site with an automated system.

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      9 months ago

      right. so hiring 50 college kids to manually visit every page and cache it for study is fine.

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        9 months ago

        That would probably be more expensive than just paying companies. But it is morally different because a human did visit their website so their good will was not violated as they expressed this consent when they published the website.