Yep, absolutely. I hear you. Like everything legal, it seems to be fuzzy and context-dependent. And that is the point -- the HOPL asserts that you can just put

Yep, absolutely. I hear you. Like everything legal, it seems to be fuzzy and context-dependent. And that is the point -- the HOPL asserts that you can just put a robots.txt on your website and say that it means bots accepted the terms in that file. In reality, that's a dubious claim.