> "I'm genuinely confused about the legality about building a business whose sole purpose is to scrape the web, repackage and sell that information"
Like Google?
Like Google?
By that I mean companies who think their data shouldn't be publicly available and also fail to place a no-crawl flag in their robots.txt.
Yelp, LinkedIn, and Craigslist are examples that have taken legal action recently against other entities scraping and re-purposing the data.