> Scraping is not necessarily a no-victim situation. Even today after this stuff has gotten cheaper, you're costing them bandwidth fees, and likely increasing their server storage and CPU fees if it's on a metered hosting service, which is quite likely nowadays. If you degrade their site's functionality, you may chase away paying customers.

While technically correct, you are conflating the issues, because in none of the cases (that I've seen mentioned so far in this thread) the problem is with bandwidth/storage/CPU costs of retrieval to any significant extent.

Instead, it appears that almost all of the costs are incurred before retrieval: curating, sorting, etc.

I'm not arguing that it's okay, but it's just as much not stealing / thievery as downloading movies or music isn't.