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>but I feel like this stuff is pretty close to theft It is theft, plain and simple. Someone makes something, owns the property, they have the right to determin
by Barrin92 5y ago
>but I feel like this stuff is pretty close to theft
It is theft, plain and simple. Someone makes something, owns the property, they have the right to determine under what conditions they sell it. I always find it hilarious how people defend piracy with arguments about making products more user friendly/cheaper and so on.
If you don't like something, don't buy it. If you're bypassing payment without the owners permission, you're stealing.
- sfe22 5y agoWhat did the publisher lose that he had before?
- chillingeffect 5y agoresources to transmit data over a network.
- sfe22 5y agoI don’t think this extension receives additional data that the publisher did not willingly provide. Besides I am pretty sure many others would be willing to offer said resources for free (if it wasn't for “good” guys with assault rifles showing up to enforce information and knowledge transfer controlls)
- Barrin92 5y agoRevenue for the service obviously. If everyone acted like the people in question and nobody paid for the service it could not sustain itself, so paying customers effectively subsidize free riders.
- sfe22 5y agoThey never had it, thus does not meet the definition of theft.
- Wolfenstein98k 5y agoWell, the publisher paid people for their writing (or content), and then hosts it for revenue. The publisher didn't pay them in order to give it away for free. If you start using digital lockpicks to pick their digital lock, and consume their content without paying, they have lost the revenue haven't they? (Cue "they're not entitled to revenue for intangible goods", and other libertarian arguments that are internally cohesive but not accepted by the public)
- sfe22 5y agoInternal matters are just that, internal matters. You cannot enforce information transfer controls (without prior agreement with that person) because you allegedly paid someone to produce data, and want to make money off of it.
- rfd4sgmk8u 5y agoYou have been awarded 8 good boy points by the Ministry of Intellectual Property. Please collect your prize at the Ministry of Love. Bypassing a HTML element is not 'stealing', its reformatting remote data. They are sending the article in the reply to the request, and messing with the formatting. If they did not want you to read the full text, they would not allow an unauthenticated users to access the text. I always find it hilarious how the strong IP bullies like to reinforce the status quo, empowering the powerful and cursing the weak.
- Barrin92 5y ago>empowering the powerful and cursing the weak. Property rights in particular protect small and independent creators who rely on the fact that people pay for their products. Large studious can generally eat the losses of piracy, independent developers cannot. This is why today they're forced to either two things. Build proprietary products that make theft impossible, or live on donations and capture only a fraction of they value they produce.
- rfd4sgmk8u 5y agoThere is only one digital property rights regime I can get behind -- Bitcoin. It is opt in, and based on a software enforced consensus independent of States and Governments. Everything else is coercion. I do not subscribe to your flavor of authoritarian strong IP.