Sure, but that's something that needs to be investigated by a court of law, it's not something you can automatically know as a system operator. The ideal thing

Sure, but that's something that needs to be investigated by a court of law, it's not something you can automatically know as a system operator. The ideal thing in this case may have been for the police to investigate, to conclude that the DoS was not done with malicious intent; but also to instruct the scraper that any further attempts to scrape the system in a this way will be considered malicious.