> Scraping and selling is morally not ok
What about hand copying? Is it ok to read a recipe on one site, and write it for your own? Or should the original site own that list of ingredients and instructions?
If it's ok to hand copy but not to scrape, what is the difference? Your personal time cost?
Like most things in life, one simple binary rule does not work for most situations.
Perhaps your primary objection is to the "selling" part. What if merely presenting the information comes at a cost, and you make up for that cost by "selling" access?
Or what if you are providing additional value to the original content?
Or what if you are making the information accessible to a larger audience, particularly one with special accessibility needs? (This may seem like grasping for straws, but so many websites are so badly made that even people with low data and old phones cannot get the content from them. So re-presenting that data in a better way may now make it accessible to a lot more people. Those are people who _could_ not get it from the "original" source in the first place.)
