> I wonder what would be a good solution here, if you really wanted to offer something of value (without treating your users as a product), that depended on the

> I wonder what would be a good solution here, if you really wanted to offer something of value (without treating your users as a product), that depended on the users opting in? Certainly asking for permission and paying for it if permission granted, for a start. Imagine in the physical world if some company decided they need water for their own benefit, so they'll take it by filling buckets from everyones front lawn hoses. That is unambiguously called theft. There shouldn't be any gray area in the electronic world where theft of bandwidth by amazon could be considered anything other than what it is.