[matheusmoreira]

> Like many topics today, there is often absolutely nothing you can say that will convince someone else your intensions are not bad.

Sometimes it's better to not even try. Acting is always the more powerful move. Just do your thing. You wrote an awesome program that downloads stuff, they got offended and banned it. You've already accomplished your goal so you let it go... But if you cared enough you could just write a scraper for the website itself. What are they gonna do about it?

In an ideal world, downloading copywritten data would be so easy and ubiquitous that the intellectual property laws would be unenforceable. Sure, they would get mad but who cares? There's very little they can do about it.

[intricatedetail]

Funnily enough IP laws do little to protect authors, it's more like a framework to make money for big organisations who pretend they protect authors' interests.