[flaburgan]

Well this is not what is happening in practice, Wikipedia / Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, OpenFoodFacts... All provide APIs and even a full dump of their database available to download for free, but no, the stupid bots still DDoS them 24h/24.

[pocksuppet]

Why don't they take legal action?

[jay_kyburz]

There is nobody to sue. The traffic is coming from millions of residential IPs.

[inigyou]

Why would that stop them?