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I wonder what are the legalities of this type of discrimination? Retail businesses aren't allowed to arbitrarily refuse service, they have to follow certain rules and be consistent.

Is there legal backing to enforce obeying robots.txt, or is it a guideline?

There are some court cases that involve robots.txt but I'm not sure because there was a lot of reading to do and I was hoping someone who knew would just come along and summarize it for us :)

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