I have two thoughts:
- EULAs aren’t written for companies to sign.
- I think EULAs are garbage anyway. They’re completely one sided and in most cases probably illegal or wouldn’t hold up in court if anyone actually had the resources to fight one.
Imo, the burden of ensuring someone has read and understands a EULA should be on the company who creates it and they should not be enforceable unless they can prove the person understood the EULA entirely before accessing the site. EULAs are not a business agreement. They’re some kind of corporate pseudo-law companies try to attach to the usage of a product. But what other product in the world has a big list of rules that come with it that way how you can use it (or be sued)?
So how does this all come back to this “company vs company scraping”? If you put it on the web, and you don’t have REAL copyright on the content (that is, you didn’t make it yourself), you have no right to protect it from “theft.”
PS yes, I know John Deere doesn’t let its customers work on its tractors but that’s some bullshit too.