I'm guessing someone at some point thought that preventing copy and paste would stop bots, then everyone copied them.
That sounds quite likely. Not the stopping bots part, just the idea that someone chose to do it for some reason, and everybody copied them without knowing the reason. Happens all too often.
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That sounds quite likely. Not the stopping bots part, just the idea that someone chose to do it for some reason, and everybody copied them without knowing the reason. Happens all too often.