Re:This would be a bad thing (I AM a lawyer).
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if there was a standard that robots could read and be required to adhere to, i.e. robots.txt, then there shouldn't be a problem with a eula on a website since the only spiders that would be violating the eula would be ones that were ignoring the robots.txt file in the first place. Give the robots.txt files some legal standing as far as automated programs scraping a site goes then you wouldn't have to worry about the ramifications of a eula on a website.
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IAAL...
if there was a standard that robots could read and be required to adhere to, i.e. robots.txt, then there shouldn't be a problem with a eula on a website since the only spiders that would be violating the eula would be ones that were ignoring the robots.txt file in the first place. Give the robots.txt files some legal standing as far as automated programs scraping a site goes then you wouldn't have to worry about the ramifications of a eula on a website.