I have nothing against scraping. Ideally, all information on the web is ready for consumption by machines and people alike, and any law or contract trying to ad

I have nothing against scraping. Ideally, all information on the web is ready for consumption by machines and people alike, and any law or contract trying to address machines and people differently in this regard is going to be flawed and technically ambiguous. Potential traffic issues aside, this seems largely unproblematic to me. It's what you actually do with the information that matters. For example, republishing or otherwise distributing information when you have no right to do so may be an ethical and legal issue.