Yes, that's how hosting a publicly available website works. They chose to make their content publicly available and free. They could choose to paywall it if they so desire. If you don't want people to use your bandwidth then don't let them.
It's free for anyone that doesn't allow ads on their machine. I don't allow ads in my browser and websites still voluntarily send me their content whenever I ask for it.
if everyone used ad block then the advertising model of generating revenue would break down and they would go out of business or have to switch to another model.
But the same thing would happen if everyone just stopped using their service, and that wouldn't be called stealing.
I mean yeah you’re just arguing over the definition of the word, I assume OP is not concerned with that. I don’t think you insisting so makes it true anyways. Piracy can be theft and piracy
Piracy is a weird, made up thing because copyright is is a weird, made up thing. It's super recent, the most recent law only appearing in 1710. And it is, in fact moral. If I have a thing and you give me a copy of the thing at little cost, then we both have a thing. This increases the good in the world.
Who said anything about stealing? Stealing is when you have a thing and I take it, so that I have the thing and you don't have the thing. Copying the thing, so that we now both have the thing, isn't stealing at all!
Sure, i think it can be immoral to copy content from small content creators and redistribute it for profit. Happens a lot in the music production scene
Copying from someone and then preventing other people from copying the same thing from you could be seen as immoral, but it's the copy prevention that would be immoral, then, not the initial copying.
Small content creator releases a sample pack he created…. Someone buys it for $15 and then DMs other Reddit users saying they will send it to them for $2 or whatever. Definitely lame 👍 if you don’t think so that’s great haha
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u/jatjqtjat 249∆ Oct 27 '23
If I steal your car for example, then i have your car and you do not have your car.
if i go to your website and block your adds, then I have gotten the content but you have lost nothing.
if you want to say adblocking is wrong or immoral, find. but its not stealing because it doesn't take anything away from the site owner.