If he had contextualized it differently, framed it as archiving the work, he’d be praised lol

The bots are literally the equiv of one user mass downloading/viewing stuff, shouldnt be that big a deal, scraping in general happens a lot with ppl using stuff like ytdlp through web frontends. In this case its mostly text too, its not like he had thousands of bots (feels like you’re conflating a few bots scraping some text and audio to kids doing ddos attacks)

You can make that tool in minutes with any agent, just have it tag based off your criteria and run it through a vision model