You both make good points. If you make the law too strict you punish reasonable uses of the website, like scraping a few publicly available pages to help users.

You both make good points. If you make the law too strict you punish reasonable uses of the website, like scraping a few publicly available pages to help users. If you make it too lenient you permit DOS attacks. It’s not easy to craft a law that will punish bad behaviour without blocking innovation.