In a similar vein for me, I really dislike cutscenes in a lot of first person games where you still have control of your character, but the only thing you can do is sloooowly move forward or move your camera slightly to the side. Just make it an actual cinematic so I can just sit back and watch instead of pretending it's gameplay.
I was about to say that a right to scraping public data was established by HiQ vs LinkedIn, but I looked up the details and apparently SCOTUS overturned that decision and sent it back to the circuits, so yeah it does still seem to be a gray area...