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The issue often isn't the scraping, it is often how you use the information scraped afterwards. A lot of scraping is done with no reference to any licensing information the sites being read might publish, hence image making AI models having regurgitated chunks of scraped stock images complete with watermarks. Though the scraping itself can count as a DoS if done aggressively enough.



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