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> These apps steal tens of thousands of dollars of ad revenue from my business monthly Avoiding ads is not stealing. Neither is wrapping someone else's content
by def_true_false 7y ago
> These apps steal tens of thousands of dollars of ad revenue from my business monthly
Avoiding ads is not stealing. Neither is wrapping someone else's content in ads.
- saiya-jin 7y ago> Neither is wrapping someone else's content in ads. What the hell are you talking about? If I take Office 2016, create custom launcher which will just pop ads here and there, offer it to companies, I can't possibly claim this as legal business anywhere where copyright law can be upheld
- def_true_false 7y agoI'm not saying it's legal or anything of the sort. It's probably some kind of fraud or copyright infringement, but it's not theft.
- rat9988 7y agoWhy not? You can't just someone else app and use it as if it was yours.
- testvox 7y agoSure you can, that is what this post is about, it's just not legal to do so. But just because something is against the law doesn't make it theft anymore then it makes it murder.
- testvox 7y agoAccessing a paid service by taking the API key out of another app without the consent of the service provider would be theft of services. In most US states theft of services falls under the same law as theft of personal property.
- def_true_false 7y agoI see. Would that also apply to e.g. circumventing a paywall to read an article?