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Originally Posted by Cocoanut Koala  Coupled with rules by the powers that be that copying other people's items without their permission is against the TOS, it serves quite well. |
This is not correct. Using a copybot style program to circumvent the permissions is not a TOS violation. Using a copybot style program to
infringe on copyright is. They are not the same thing. See my above message. You seem to believe that copyright is absolute, it is not. If it were, then maybe browsers wouldn't have "save page as" features. But they do.