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They can't even be punished.
robots.txt
is just a convention, not a regulation. It's totally not enforceable.The only legal framework we have is copyright law. Those who oppose this behavior will have to demonstrate copyright violation, and that may be difficult to do since the law hasn't caught up.
It's true robots is not regulation but if it's proven they ignore it on purpose it will be a major point in future lawsuits. And those are the next step.
It won't have any relevance at all.
Either scraping to transform the information in the page is fair use, and consent isn't necessary, or it is not fair use, and the absence of a robots.txt doesn't constitute consent. There's no middle ground where a robots.txt can mean anything.
Yeah I know. But I wanted to point out that the comment in the article wasn't so much a real consideration as business risk analysis 101. Along with a healthy dose of corporate spin.