When I scrape, I attach a header that says roughly “By responding to this request, the provider allows me to use the response for my own personal use; and accep

When I scrape, I attach a header that says roughly “By responding to this request, the provider allows me to use the response for my own personal use; and accepts that this overrides any terms stated on the web page.” Cut and dried? A lawyer friend told me, informally, that if it went to court a younger judge would throw out my “contract” because it’s silly, but a more senior judge might well take the view that both contracts, my version and that of the web site, are equally silly, and both fall short of the “meeting of minds” standard.