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"Circumventing payment" really is not in this case. It's the other half of the price-finding mechanism in the marketplace for content, which is suspiciously mi

by gills 17y ago

"Circumventing payment" really is not in this case. It's the other half of the price-finding mechanism in the marketplace for content, which is suspiciously missing from option 1 above. Every price is negotiable, and in this case some small segment of the target audience is offering $0 for the content. By your logic, it's immoral to mute the TV, go to the kitchen, and make a sandwich during the commercial break. In reality, some percentage of the population makes sandwiches instead of watching ads, and this behavior is priced into the advertising contracts.

houseabsolute 17y ago
> and in this case some small segment of the target audience is offering $0 for the content. There is a segment like this in every market. It doesn't follow that that segment may ethically consume the content at the price they find acceptable. To be morally right, they must negotiate to a price that the provider also finds agreeable. If they cannot reach agreement on a price, the only morally correct thing is to refrain from consuming the content, _not_ to just consume it anyway.