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> it allows people who would otherwise pay for content to get it for free But the sole existence of this trick and the person that would use it is exactly some
by type0 11y ago
> it allows people who would otherwise pay for content to get it for free
But the sole existence of this trick and the person that would use it is exactly someone who would not pay, therefore your argument does not hold. And stealing it is not, it is more like listening to the outdoor rock concert beside the fence because you don't want to pay, inconvenient- sure, so plenty of people would still pay.
Cloaking is against Googles rules so it is WSJ that's dishonest.
- zodiac 11y agoI'm not arguing that bypassing the WSJ paywall causes damage to WSJ - I'm personally not sure that it does. What I'm arguing for is that if for some reason WSJ needed to prove in court that a paywall-bypassing tool causes them damage, they would use the it-deprived-us-of-potential-revenue argument that I outlined, rather than the it-forced-us-to-waste-electricity argument. You're right that the it-deprived-us-of-potential-revenue argument might not work in this case, in the sense that it is very possible that there does not exist a person who would have paid for a WSJ subscription but, because of the paywall-bypassing tool, did not.