That much is clear. With the data there, anything they did was subject to scrape, if they block IPs, they start using other IPs, VPNs etc to still scrape it. Making a bit of a war to keep things running properly. Screen scrapes can easily get out of hand, especially when they are sloppy code. I've seen it to impact entire networks, making me have to take serious action to stop it, but I won't go there right now, it is however, a major cost to continue this war.

I have some solutions on making it available without being subject to scrape, or need to login, but I am not in their IT and not going to offer it up.

Would I rather they had a replacement in place before disabling this? YES!