There’s two prongs to this

1. Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but.

2. Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service.

So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature.

A reprap style project could probably make a passable document printer- but what’s the appeal? People only work on those projects to make new or previously unobtainable machines available.

I just don’t think it’d be worth the effort.

where legally, “sell” includes things that most people wouldn’t consider a sale

Allowing access for valuable consideration is pretty cut and dry. What is the legislation defining beyond that?