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Paying for your own Internet, accessing something publicly accessible, and downloading your preferred subset of bits of what's available on your own hardware is
by basilgohar 3y ago
Paying for your own Internet, accessing something publicly accessible, and downloading your preferred subset of bits of what's available on your own hardware is not stealing.
Compelling my own property to behave against my wishes is the moral failing.
- acdha 3y agoYouTube is not publicly accessible: they offer it under specific terms, namely that you watch ads or pay directly. If you don’t want to accept that deal you don’t have any more right to use their private property than you do to complain that the local movie theater wouldn’t let you sneak in when you didn’t like their ticket prices.
- travoc 3y agoYouTube has no problem serving content to my yt-dlp client without ads, payment, authentication or terms of service.
- acdha 3y agoThat doesn’t mean it’s allowed, only that they haven’t blocked it again. You can’t use your neighbors’ pool without permission just because they don’t have a guard checking IDs, either.
- travoc 3y agoTurns out, I can.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoUp until they notice and decide to call the police.
- mcpackieh 3y agoI use an adblocker, call the police and tell them I told you so.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIf you found people who make a habit of swimming in your pool without permission then I imagine you'd be the one calling the police.
- acdha 3y agoNot legally, no. This thread is the lower stakes version of what happens when the owner gets tired of free loaders and starts enforcing their legal rights.