I have a copyleft, for all the good it does my work. Copyright protects artists from nothing, and leaving it uncontested harms the consumer more than the artists.

> Data being public is also notably not a license to use it for whatever purpose you want.

Under the Fair Use doctrine, it very well could be. It was when Google indexed every book they could buy, to the disdain of the Author's Guild and the titleholders they represented.

> Have some respect.

I will not respect an authority that forces me to rent digital content.