A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour.

Either way, a change did happen, financial impact aside this change is definitely going to disrupt the ecosystem as a whole which is a much bigger unknown at this point.

> A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour.

People committing work get rewards in different ways, waged labour could be one, attributions, acknowledgements, future job opportunities and more. Stripping those from the rightful owners can hardly be justified in the name of progress.