Copyright strikes are common on educational platforms. If a professor discovers their material has been uploaded without consent, they can issue a takedown notice. If you haven't downloaded the file, you might lose access to it forever.

Most of these are fake, outdated, or malicious. Course Sidekick (like Chegg and Bartleby) employs dynamic content loading , CAPTCHAs , session tokens , and server-side rendering to prevent automated scraping. Even if a script worked temporarily, it would break within days.

Course Sidekick monitors for suspicious activity (too many requests in a short time, headless browsers, etc.). Yes, they can detect and ban your account or IP. Some users have reported account termination after attempting scraping.