> For requests which are "reading" you just serve content, unless for some reason you only want human eyeballs to see your content.

I was going to cite the LinkedIn case where, last I had heard, the courts had decided that scraping was legal...

Headline [0] from April:

> Court rules that data scraping is legal in LinkedIn appeal

> LinkedIn has lost its latest attempt to block companies from scraping information from its public pages, including member pages.

... but upon googling it, I found a more recent [1] ruling :/

> LinkedIn prevails in 6-year lawsuit against data scraper

> The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with LinkedIn in its six year lawsuit against a firm that scraped data ...

So that sure puts a nail into the argument I was going to make. But still, while I think your use case lines up with the spirit of this kind of system, I think the reality is that it also would be used by every single site with a signup wall to kill off the archive.ph's of the world.

0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/court-rules-that-data-scraping...

1: https://iapp.org/news/a/linkedin-prevails-in-six-year-lawsui...