I'm hugely thankful someone highlighted this conflict - that our property law has largely been eroded by contract law - in a nice pull quoting from Web scraping for me but not for thee.

The seller/person getting money gets to set whatever terms they want. It cited Mark Lemley as having made the connection two decades ago. https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-f... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264970

It's abhorrent in extreme to strip away the rights of the citizens like so. Our ability to experiment with the world & explore the things about is fundamental to maintaining the human spirit, to keeping us homo sapiens.