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Blurry Moon on Nostr: Swartz was scraping so fast it was causing availability problems for on-campus ...

Swartz was scraping so fast it was causing availability problems for on-campus legitimate users, that was how he got caught and a big factor in why they went after him. If you think about it it's very similar to (legitimate) complaints about aggressive AI scrapers knocking out sites and raising maintenance costs.