Speaking of this and other cases of trying to punish someone for every iteration of a for loop - I wonder if the result would be the same if the accused drove actual browser to click stuff in a for loop, vs. using curl directly. I imagine the same, but then...
... what if they paid N people some token amount of money, to have each of those people do one step of the loop and send them the result? Does executing a for loop entirely on in part on the human substrate instead of in silico is seen as abuse under CFAA?
(I have a feeling that it might not be - there's lots of jobs online and offline that involve one company paying lots of people some money for gathering information from their competitors, in a way the latter very much don't like.)