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Certainly not! If I was re-selling the data, maybe. But I'm generally using it for statistics and data viz. I include the source of the data and I always obey robots.txt. Sometimes I'm even able to talk with the owners beforehand to get their ok.

(Don't downvote him, it's a valid question)

Now you'll have to tell us about the project...

300TB is quite a lot, even today.

Over time, I've learned to wget every web page and content archive I want to keep. The Internet forgets.

That's personal use, I have no problem with that. The above project sounds commercial in nature.

That seems pretty presumptuous...

In an earlier age, I ran everything through squid to consolidate browser caches. About five minutes after setting it up, I realised that pulling all the references in the log file and then indexing the lot with htdig would be tremendously useful when I was on the road without internet access.

I spent way too much time pruning stupid crap such as slashdot and started to learn this 'Bayesian classifier' thing.

Your idea is much better.

Why should he? It's publicly available information.