GenAI companies are strip-mining the web. Their scraping bots harvest content at an unprecedented scale, circumventing technical barriers to fuel billion-dollar models while creators receive nothing. Courts have enabled this exploitation by misunderstanding what property rights protect online. The prevailing view treats websites as mere repositories of intellectual property and dismisses trespass claims absent server damage. That framework grants AI companies presumptive access while ignoring the economic devastation they inflict. But the content is severable from the website itself. This paper reframes the debate: websites are personal property as integrated digital assets subject to the same exclusionary rights as physical chattels. When scrapers bypass access controls and divert traffic that sustains a website's value, they commit actionable trespass. The law need not create new protections; it need only apply existing property principles to digital space. Courts and litigants have struggled to police unwanted, large-scale scraping because copyright preemption often narrows available claims, leaving copyright and its fair use defense as the primary battleground. Trespass to chattels offers a superior path, grounded in the fundamental right to exclude unwanted intrusions. Reviving this tort would protect not only content creators but also the digital ecosystem. Such protection would discourage exploitative scraping, preserve incentives for content creation, help protect privacy and personal data, and safeguard autonomy and expression. Reaffirming website owners' right to exclude is essential to maintaining a fair and sustainable online environment.

翻译：生成式人工智能公司正在对网络进行掠夺式开采。其爬虫机器人以前所未有的规模采集内容，规避技术障碍以驱动价值数十亿美元的模型，而内容创作者却一无所获。法院因误解网络财产权的保护范围而助长了这种剥削行为。主流观点将网站仅视为知识产权的存储库，并在未造成服务器损害的情况下驳回侵害动产的主张。这一框架赋予了人工智能公司推定访问权，同时忽视了其造成的经济破坏。但内容本身可与网站分离。本文重新构建了这场辩论：网站作为整合的数字资产属于动产，应享有与实体动产相同的排他性权利。当爬虫程序绕过访问控制并分流维持网站价值的流量时，即构成可诉的动产侵害行为。法律无需创设新的保护措施，只需将现有财产原则适用于数字空间即可。法院和诉讼当事人一直难以规制不受欢迎的大规模爬取行为，因为版权优先适用原则往往限缩了可诉主张，使版权及其合理使用抗辩成为主要战场。动产侵害之诉提供了一条更优路径，其植根于排除非自愿侵入的基本权利。重振这一侵权主张不仅能保护内容创作者，也能维护数字生态系统。此类保护将遏制剥削性爬取行为，保持内容创作激励，有助于保护隐私和个人数据，并捍卫自主权与表达权。重申网站所有者排除侵害的权利，对于维持公平可持续的网络环境至关重要。