My son has done a few of these for me. :) Smaller sites, one time grabs. But yes, persisting AFTER a direct request that you stop is usually both uncool and legally risky.
Depends on the scraper. I buy data dumps when I can, if possible. Plus, it can actually be cheaper to enter into a business relationship with the target site than it is to play whack a mile with their anti scraping development efforts over time.
Generally speaking, no. It can escalate to the point where other criminal statutes apply (harassment, stalking, assault). But on its own, I don't think the US has any criminal penalties specifically for sexual harassment?
Not to single you out or anything, but this comment is representative of a class I regularly see in threads about alleged illegal activity.
Simply put, that is not how the legal system works. Whether that is how the legal system should work, is another matter.
It is not clear whether your comment, or this type of comment generally, is expressing an inquiry: why did this not happen the way I thought it was supposed to? Or a more rhetorical, why isn't the system set up differently?
So, if the latter, my bad. But my intuition says the former, and it seemed worth addressing.
It's more like a class signifier. People who have certain educational backgrounds, or read a lot of certain types of writing, are more likely to use it.
