This is a dishonest analogy. In your example, there is only a limited amount of cookies available. While there is no practical limit on the amount of time a certain digital media can be viewed.
You are allowed to take one cookie. But you are allowed to view a public website multiple times if you so want.
You're trying to use a quite unfunny "sarcasm" to move the goalpost to the strawman (they never claimed they handcrafted these pages) and quickly gloss ove the fact it's 20 years of work so why not?
You're ascribing an adversarial attitude to me which is actually held by nobody except yourself. The question was genuine and out of curiosity, and they can answer for themselves, however they choose. From the posting guidelines:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I am a friend, not a foe, and so are your other fellow HN posters.
> So why did you want to know if my 6M pages were handwritten
I didn't ask if they were, I just assumed so. My assumptions are sometimes wrong, though, so feel free to correct me there, if you want to.
> why was the method of production relevant here exactly?
This being Hacker News, you should expect to see questions along the lines of "how did you do that?" when mentioning something impressive you did. People here are (to grossly generalize) interested in learning how to do things, and how things work.
On the other hand, AI bots scraping stuff, isn't impressive, and having already read many posts on that issue, I'm not as interested in rehashing what we both seem to already know.
But enough about me. As long as we're going meta: Why do you want to know why I want to know what I want to know? I want to know :)
There sure is a limit in the load that the server you're DDoSing can take or the will for people to post new worthy content in public. The supply is limited just not at the first degree. Let's make a small edit: Are you allowed to take all the cookies and then sell them with a small ribbon with your name on it ?
You are allowed to take one cookie. But you are allowed to view a public website multiple times if you so want.