It's a great question. What we're really trying to do is make data accessible programmatically and at scale. We want to connect data providers and data consumers with APIs in a way that's mutually beneficial vs. being a tool for data theft. Our hope is to (once we scale) actually work with data providers directly on the on the distribution of their data so the IP ban becomes a non-issue.
But isn't the point kinda to let the users come up with data providers themselves? If you say "Only these 500 data providers are available for scraping", you don't have a business. If you don't' have such a limitation, you'll not be able to work directly with all data providers. You'll have IP problems.
