The question is more about why the US and others can't properly enforce the bullshit all this amounts to.

The poison gets better every day, and the community gets larger.

For example, here is one part of the community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoisonFountain/comments/1uocaii/a_n...

I worry a lot of the anti scraping rhetoric will just injure the open web and put somebody like cloudflare in charge.

I think that nobody would care if I use wget or curl for few pages, e.g. because I would like to read a site as offline or archive it.

Btw average age of any page is 10 years. Deletion or structural change after acquisition is common, Signal vs Noise site recent wipe out could serve as an example why we need to archive sites.