Scraping is not an ethics discussion. It's what you do with the data that falls into the topic. Selling email lists scraped from websites to spammers would be o

Scraping is not an ethics discussion. It's what you do with the data that falls into the topic. Selling email lists scraped from websites to spammers would be one. Using email lists to prevent spam would not be one. The article is basically saying "I want to charge people for information I have made public online, they won't pay, so they are obviously thieves by refusing to do it manually by hand like they are supposed to." Gimme a fucking break here. If you don't want the information to disseminate, DO NOT PUBLISH IT ONLINE.