You mean like how you learned from others? Against their will?
You create a highly useful website full of dense hard earned knowledge. Some people will just use that knowledge, but a few create their own sites, using what they learned.
A company sweeps up hard earned knowledge from millions of sites, with automation but not permission, and goes a long way to making those millions of informational sites redundant without any compensation.
Simplifying things obviously. But these two scenarios are not equivalent.
It's basically a store-brand argumentum ad verecundiam, casting yourself in the position of authority.
It should be obvious by now that there are many, many people who disagree with you without their arguments necessarily being "ridiculous".
I mean, I too would enjoy it if everyone agreed with all my opinions all the time, but I don't expect that to actually happen.
No, it absolutely is not.
> obviously absurd claim
You are obviously and absurdly wrong.
It's clear that nothing productive is going to come of this conversation.
(Based on a true story, it took me 3 years and 2 law firms to recuperate royalties for IP theft)