[cookiecaper]

DDoS attacks are malicious events that disrupt service. In almost 100% of cases, scrapers don't want to disrupt service, because they need the data they're scraping. They want to be able to continue to get it, so they won't do things that may harm their ability to do that (including presenting honest IPs and user agents).

Services like this one actually make scraper-related unavailability, which IMO is already greatly exaggerated, less likely, since there will be fewer amateurs trying to write their own bots and accidentally breaking things.

To the extent that a scraper harms the other business, the scraping company can be held civilly liable on several accounts without specifically bringing scraping as a practice into the picture. All that matters is that they damaged the target site's ability to operate, not that they were saving [portions of] the pages (that'd be a separate copyright claim, unrelated to the disruption of service).