>Is it always ok for someone to build a bot to do something which can be legally done by hand? Funny that you put it that way; when computers were in their inf

>Is it always ok for someone to build a bot to do something which can be legally done by hand? Funny that you put it that way; when computers were in their infancy, people would scoff along the lines of, "...and they spent all that money/time teaching the damned thing to do something that you could get anyone off the street to do for $0.50/hr..." Of course, before computers were invented in the first place 'computer' was a job description for a person who computes. How things change in...what, 50-80 years?