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> Which means they are only not OK with scraping when Google uses the scrapped for purpose they deemed reduced their traffic

Obviously. The way the profit model for the internet works right now, for sites to coexist with Google, they must actually receive some of the traffic that is generated from searches matching their content. Who would be okay with having all of their content scraped with the result being that they get none of the traffic and thus the monetary benefit from the work they do?



It's not Genius' content, though. It's the artists'. If it was their content, they could simply sue for copyright infringement.




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