[r_singh]

As the legal history around scraping shows, it’s almost always the smaller company that gets sued out of existence. Taking on OpenAI or Microsoft, as you suggest, isn’t realistic — even governments often struggle to hold them accountable.

And for the record, large companies regularly ignore robots.txt themselves: LinkedIn, Google, OpenAI, and plenty of others.

The reality is that it’s the big players who behave like the aggressors, shaping the rules and breaking them when convenient. Smaller developers aren’t the problem, they’re just easier to punish.