> Is it legal for a government entity to issue a robots.txt like that? I may be wrong (this isn't my area), but I was under the impression that robots.txt was

> Is it legal for a government entity to issue a robots.txt like that? I may be wrong (this isn't my area), but I was under the impression that robots.txt was just an unofficial convention? I'm not saying people should ignore robots.txt, but are there legal ramifications if ignored? I'm not asking about techniques sites use to discourage crawlers/scrapers, I'm specifically wondering if robots.txt has any legal weight.