Do you know anything about the internet and how it works? It's a series of tubes!

All joking aside. Yes, everyone here knows that bots are needed. No one is disagreeing with you. You're fighting a fight that you alone started against no one.

Keep up the thievery and ignoring robots.txt and your website won't be able to index anything. I'm guessing you don't have much experience in information services or have just enough to get you into trouble. These aren't the kind of people you want to mess with and piss off.

I hope you get the issues worked out so every can prosper from each others work, legitimately.