[sneak]

This idea that you can publish data for people to download and read but not for people to download and store, or print, or think about, or train on is a doomed one.

If you don’t want people reading your data, don’t put it on the web.

The concept that copyright extends to “human eyeballs only” is a silly one.

[t1001]

With the problem being bots hammering the site en masse, it feels like the better analog is "allowing free replicator use without having someone ruin the fun by requesting ten tons of food be produced in their quarters every minute".