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You 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 i
by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
You 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.