> I have little sympathy for the company in this article. If you put your content on the web, and don't require authentication to access it, it's going to be crawled and scraped. Most of the time you're happy about this — you want search providers to index your content.

If I stock a Little Free Library at the end of my driveway, it's because I want people in the community to peruse and swap the books in a way that's intuitive to pretty much everyone who might encounter it.

I shouldn't need to post a sign outside of it saying "Please don't just take all of these at once", and it'd be completely reasonable for me to feel frustrated if someone did misuse it -- regardless of whether the sign was posted or not.