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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by scotty79 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:59AM (#22181193)
Maybe you could contact the scrapper? Just post magnet links on the site that allows them to get nicely formatted dump of what they want.
Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) by DougWebb on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:26AM (#22182280)
We did figure out who the scraper probably is, but only after several years. For a long time they used an untracable botnet, but after blocking that they eventually switched to a corporate network we traced to a data aggregation company. But we don't know for sure who's doing the scraping; it could be the company, a rogue employee, or a botnet that got loose on their network.