Maybe it is productive to compare this to Aaron Schwartz's violation of the terms of service, downloading information from a publishers api using a university a

Maybe it is productive to compare this to Aaron Schwartz's violation of the terms of service, downloading information from a publishers api using a university account against the terms of service. That was enough reason for a 35 year prison charge, plus 1 million damages. Of course, he was an activist, doing it for ideological reasons, against corporate interests. Contrary to what one might expect, the class justice system in the US punishes that much harder than a big corporation doing the same for the non-ideological reason of making more profit. Most people here seem to think it's benign, just a company competing hard, but that seems hypocritical to me.