This is not true. The articles are returned in full without paywall to crawlers, media companies do this to trick search engines into displaying it as a free ar

This is not true. The articles are returned in full without paywall to crawlers, media companies do this to trick search engines into displaying it as a free article for SEO. Just because your SEO tricks started giving paid articles for free to users who visit through crawlers doesn't make it anything close to piracy.