At some point it's easier to geoblock a whole country at the firewall level and loginwall the rest of the world, rather than trying to explain that in your jurisdiction, which is not their jurisdiction, what they are doing is a crime — which they don't give a single fuck about.

In the world, the richest wins, not the nicest (cf. Sam Altman)

lol. Tell that to Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu, Saddam Hussain, Muammar Gaddafi, and all those other tinpot nobjockeys who thought their money and influence would save them from "nice" people.

Is that where Sam Altman is hiding?

Each of these crawlers is as much a DoS as Aaron Swartz.