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I feel the opposite. I don't think it's unethical, even if it might be illegal. Even calling this "bandwidth theft" is quite the hyperbole—if the server can't
by __david__ 12y ago
I feel the opposite. I don't think it's unethical, even if it might be illegal.
Even calling this "bandwidth theft" is quite the hyperbole—if the server can't handle the bandwidth, then rate limit the requests.
I think if you're serving out pages to the public, you don't really get to tell me what kind of browser I'm allowed to download it with. As long as I'm speaking HTTP, it seems fair.
Sadly, that law has been slowly creeping against this mentality... Lately I feel like I'm some old internet hippy with these views. On a site called "Hacker News", no less.
- ibmthrowaway218 12y ago> Sadly, that law has been slowly creeping against this mentality... Lately I feel like I'm some old internet hippy with these views. On a site called "Hacker News", no less. I guess it's because everyday more and more people on here are finding themselves on the other side of the fence, i.e. finding that some of their users are ripping off their content/site.
- ForHackernews 12y agoMaybe people need to come up with a better business model for websites than "Put up some 'content' and sell ads next to it." Sell a product or service.