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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by Touche on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:20AM (#11323249)
IANAL so I can't answer your question. But I think we can posit a world in which advertisers have garnered enough political clout to enact anti-ad blocking laws and that would shift the conversation.

At that point it still wouldn't be equivalent to pirating, IMO, but rather more like using DeCSS to circumvent DVD scrambling.

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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by ikeboy on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:39AM (#11323314)
>At that point it still wouldn't be equivalent to pirating, IMO, but rather more like using DeCSS to circumvent DVD scrambling.

You're not paying. This seems more like borrowing a DVD from a library or friend, then ripping it using such software and watching it after you return it.

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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by Touche on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:43AM (#11323324)
It's not, the creators (the website) directly gave it to me. I'm not borrowing it from someone that paid. My browser sent them a GET and they replied with 200 OK and some content. Whether I paid or not is irrelevant; they voluntarily gave it to me.
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