It's getting stranger....

I followed a link in a Mudcat thread and swiped some text to copy a few lines. When I had finished my swipe, and even before I hit ctrl-C, up popped a little magnifying glass icon with pop-up message in it which said "Suspected Terms of Service abuse..please see http://code.google.com/apis/errors.

Curious, I typed that in...and was redirected to:

https://developers.google.com/errors/

where I read this: "You received this notice because Google has blocked or throttled this website's access to the Google API.
If you are a user of this website, please forward the URL of this error document (http://code.google.com/apis/errors/) to the site administrator.
If you are a developer, please keep reading to diagnose the problem and reinstate the API.

We blocked your website from using the API due to one of the reasons cited below. To reinstate your account, you need to take action so your site complies with the Terms of Use."

and it goes on with explanations about what to do to "reinstate API"...... I have NEVER seen this before, and wonder if it's related to all the other stuff going on.