[chillbill]

I get your point but your analogy doesn’t quite work.

[nickstinemates]

Yeah it's more like stealing a million bikes, putting all parts into a pile and custom assembling them on request.

[chillbill]

Still not exactly right. Stealing bikes deprives owners of them, while scraping data doesn’t.

[moffkalast]

How about torrenting the entirety of the world's filmography, using that content to make clips compilations on youtube, then claiming copyright strikes and demonetizing videos that contain those clips?

In a sense, it's almost patent trolling.