This article focuses a lot on _good_ of web-scraping but I don't think we even need to go that far.
Fight against web-scrapers just seems like a complete logical oxymoron: they want data to be public but also select who gets to see it. Our whole web infrastructure are based around clearly distinct public/private exchanges - there's no middleground this and yet people create these absurd hacks like captchas and fingerprints to fight the nature of the internet.
Finally everyone wants benefits of public data (search engine indexing etc) but don't really want to give anything back to the ecosystem. It's just pure greed and law, our society and government shouldn't aid it in any way, shape or form.
Fight against web-scrapers just seems like a complete logical oxymoron: they want data to be public but also select who gets to see it. Our whole web infrastructure are based around clearly distinct public/private exchanges - there's no middleground this and yet people create these absurd hacks like captchas and fingerprints to fight the nature of the internet.
Finally everyone wants benefits of public data (search engine indexing etc) but don't really want to give anything back to the ecosystem. It's just pure greed and law, our society and government shouldn't aid it in any way, shape or form.