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How is it "egregious" that people are obtaining content to use for their own purposes from a resource intentionally established as a repository of content for p
by Gormo 9mo ago
How is it "egregious" that people are obtaining content to use for their own purposes from a resource intentionally established as a repository of content for people to obtain and use for their own purposes?
- decremental 9mo ago[dead]
- Intralexical 9mo agoBecause nobody who opens a public library does so intending, nor consenting, for random companies to jam the entrance trying to cart off thousands of books solely to use for their own enrichment. https://xkcd.com/1499/ https://xkcd.com/1499/
- renewiltord 9mo agoNo one is carting off anything. You still have the original. If you could make copies of books for almost no cost why would you hoard them?
- dxdm 9mo agoRequests to physical servers over physical media are not free. Someone needs to pay for providing and maintaining the infrastructure etc etc. Finite resources are still getting used up by people not paying for them. That's what this thread and the analogy are about.
- jasonwatkinspdx 9mo agoYears and years ago I shared a cubicle with a woman named Tracy. A couple times a month Tracy would get lunch at the Mongolian BBQ place down the road (all you can eat stir fry that has nothing to do with Mongolian food for anyone unfamiliar). Anyhow, Tracy would put a gallon sized ziplock bag into her purse, and at the restaurant shovel half a dozen plates worth of food into it. Then she'd work the afternoon eating out of her purse like it's a bowl, just sitting there on the desk.