So they crawled the web, stole the information to populate their own database and then pretend it was "illegal" for others to steal it back?
The weird attitude in the Internet Tech company scene is akin to Gold Rush scenarios.
Who are the native people?
The data is the moat, the compute is a cost center.
> So they crawled the web, stole the information to populate their own database and then pretend it was "illegal" for others to steal it back?
These days, this seems to be "modus operandi". The bet is who can get closer to the administration to suddenly enforce the un-enforce-able. For your own safety. You wouldn't steal a car now, would you?