Ok. As i am not a lawyer i cannot say anything about the us. In germany there are many meta search or aggregator services for various things. All of them use we

Ok. As i am not a lawyer i cannot say anything about the us. In germany there are many meta search or aggregator services for various things. All of them use web-scraping extensively. E.g. popular price comparison: https://geizhals.de/ https://geizhals.de/. The argumentation about "tranformative" nature of something making it exceptional and above the law sound not intuitive to me.