depends on your definition of destroying. One large site I help maintain is regularly DDOSed by AI scrapers that take the site off line (at least temporarily). As the a-holes use 1000's of requests per second from 1000's of IP address. I will name and shame the IP addresses. blocks 8.208.0.0/12 47.246.0.0/16 47.235.0.0/16 47.244.0.0/15 47.236.0.0/14 and 47.240.0.0/14 They do not play nicely with others and they ignore robots.txt
A company acquiring assets so they can make money off them by jacking up the prices... Oh wait this happens daily!! There is nothing new or news worthy here.