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Lots of people here seem to believe that scraping should be legal because it is possible.

The flaw in that argument is that a law is never needed, by definition, to prevent things that can easily be avoided by technical means.

The laws against burglary protect your property and health but, more importantly, they allow us all to live in peace without investing vast amounts of resources into physical protection.




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