Law or not, it seems completely absurd that I should be able to go through any database I have a license to view and just scrape all the content, especially if

Law or not, it seems completely absurd that I should be able to go through any database I have a license to view and just scrape all the content, especially if my purpose is to release their content to vitally damage their business. At the same time, I don’t see why we should consider it a crime if I ssh into an insecure server and steal a persons credit card information, but if someone at the bank has an old password and go into the same server to get the same information then suddenly it’s ok? I mean the crime in a breaking and entering isn’t that you manage to break the lock, it’s the entering that’s the problem.