Everyone was within their rights to deny Google access to their machines for scraping, but that would have been impossible to do. The web is only a psuedo publi

Everyone was within their rights to deny Google access to their machines for scraping, but that would have been impossible to do. The web is only a psuedo public apparatus, filled with private computers. While you could technically deny access to a specific person you could never actually implement that or follow it up legally.