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by judge2020 846 days ago
Legality isn't the question here. If you want to speak to the legality, anyone circumventing a robots txt that explicitly has your bot's user-agent and 'disallow: *' is unauthorized access (I imagine it's more nuanced for 'user-agent: *'). No website is required to allow anyone to visit and can discriminate against any client or software any way they want.
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> Legality isn't the question here.

The question was literally,

> What are the legitimate (i.e. legal) use cases for a product such as this?