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> and then rotated his MAC address to dodge the bans that the admin was trying to place on him

And corporate scrapers never ever use proxy pools to rotate IPs to evade throttling and blacklisting. Meta is also scraping illegal content, such as pirated books. So I'm not sure what your argument is.

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The difference here is that the scientific papers he downloaded weren't freely available to the public, like those scraped webpages would be. Corporate scrapers have been sued[0] in the past for scraping pages from behind a login page / paywall.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

Neither are the pirated books Meta is using for model training.

I totally agree with you, and didn't mean to endorse that.

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