> the vast majority of Web scraping efforts are to build businesses on top of other organizations hard work and innovation. Period. End of story.

Yeah and the vast majority of the internet and all these mega corps run on open source while paying pittance back to the ecosystem. Cry me a fuckin river.

Can't wait til someone sue's them for "scraping" their site for web previews and thumbnails everytime someone shares a link on Facebook.

The double standard of these muppets.