It's digital copies, no real damage is done.

AA asks you to not scrape them because of server load and provides torrents to download everything in more efficient manner.

Unlike Spotify, AA is a nonprofit. It's more urgent for them to prevent costly extraction of data. Spotify can do this too, if they so wanted.

It's not about consent, obviously AA is infringing.

BTW, why did you create a last minute account just to criticize AA?