that's the expected cost of publishing something to the public internet. People are going to access it. No one has a right to complain when people access something that was put there for the public to see. Scrappers can be dicks about it too, they can get lazy and endlessly hammer away at some server or repeatedly pull down the same content because they messed up, but we don't need need litigation for that. If something raises to the level of DoS that's already covered under existing laws.
> it's completely in keeping with what amoral corporations locked in constant battle would be expected to do: maximize benefits to themselves while minimizing benefits to others.
Maybe we need to rethink giving some of these corporations the privilege of corporate personhood if they are just going to make things worse for everyone else while only enriching themselves. We don't need to allow parasites and pillagers to take whatever they want at our expense.