Does that imply I just stole your comment by reading it?

No snark intended; I’m seriously asking. If the answer is “no” then where do you draw the line?

What’s the problem with that? Reproducing copyrighted works in full is problematic obviously. But if I learned English by watching American movies, I didn’t steal the language from the movie studios, I learned it.

Web scraping is legal.

And if you run a website and want to opt-out then simply add a robots.txt.

The standard way of preventing bots for 30 years.