@davidgerard It occurs to me that once you take deliberate action to evade a mechanism that has been put in place to res...

@davidgerard It occurs to me that once you take deliberate action to evade a mechanism that has been put in place to restrict access - particularly *your* access - to a computer system, you are now in "unauthorized access to a computer system" felony territory.US Title (?) 18, § 1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers > (a) Whoever— ... (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds> authorized access, and thereby obtains— ... (C) information from any protected computer;Scraping content would seem to qualify as obtaining information."Lock 'em up!"#GoodLuck #law #felony #AI #grift #scofflaw