Of course I don't support a crawler who steals content, it's immoral and should be punished by law and community. But the way they approached this in court, is

Of course I don't support a crawler who steals content, it's immoral and should be punished by law and community. But the way they approached this in court, is overly dangerous and sets a precedent (for the anglosaxon law system) which could be very dangerous. It's way to broad. An open bar to the public? At a bar you have a degree of physical contact which conveys info you can not have via internet, that's why the 'square' example fits better (imho). But example apart, I'm with you on this: the court case sets a dangerous precedent.