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by nickstinemates 1101 days ago
Yeah it's more like stealing a million bikes, putting all parts into a pile and custom assembling them on request.
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Still not exactly right. Stealing bikes deprives owners of them, while scraping data doesn’t.
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.