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This seems like a terribly one-sided transaction that doesn't seem to apply to basically any other consumer-business relationship. To continue the delivery driv
by squigz 3y ago
This seems like a terribly one-sided transaction that doesn't seem to apply to basically any other consumer-business relationship. To continue the delivery driver analogy from another comment, does a pizza place have the right to dictate whether I can cover up ads on their pizza box when it comes to my house?
- Terr_ 3y agoI think an important distinction here might be the difference between consuming content versus re-publishing it. 1. If I buy a newspaper and I cut out all the ads, that's perfectly fine. (Except in a corporatist dystopia.) 2. If I make a business buying newspapers, cutting out their ads, and then reselling the results, then that could easily get me in trouble for copyright and trademark infringement. 3. If I sell a device people can operate on their own newspapers that automatically cuts out all the ads, that should be fine. So when it comes to some of these paywall avoiding services, I think the question is they're doing number 2 or number 3.