Copyright management company Pex asks the Copyright Office for a DMCA anti-circumvention exemption to scrape online sevices such as YouTube. “Crawlers that collect data and content present on UGC platforms and allow rights holders to know where and when their works are being used illegally, a practice colloquially referred to as ‘web scraping,’ are regularly blocked by platforms,” Pex informs the copyright office.
Source: Pex Asks Copyright Office for a DMCA Exemption to Find Pirated Content * TorrentFreak