While I agree it’s a problem, unless you get litigious or the backing of a national congressional body, you might as well not care. You won’t win this fight.
Circa 2008 I worked for a startup that would scrape Google Books and a variety of other sources for public domain content to then print via Amazon’s Print-on-Demand services. Google, of course, didn’t like this and introduced a Captcha not very long after we started scraping.
So we hired a team of underemployed / unemployed English majors during the height of the recession, paid them $10 per hour to type in Captchas all day long and we downloaded their full corpus anyways.
Circa 2008 I worked for a startup that would scrape Google Books and a variety of other sources for public domain content to then print via Amazon’s Print-on-Demand services. Google, of course, didn’t like this and introduced a Captcha not very long after we started scraping.
So we hired a team of underemployed / unemployed English majors during the height of the recession, paid them $10 per hour to type in Captchas all day long and we downloaded their full corpus anyways.
If Google can’t win, you won’t either.