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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by tremon on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:15AM (#11422505)
you are hurting a business by consuming content that costs them money to create and host without paying for it

And if I chose not to consume their content, how much money would it save them?

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by darpa_escapee on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:47AM (#11422771)
That sounds like entitlement according to the OP's definition.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by tremon on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:01PM (#11422911)
Maybe, but that wasn't my point. My point is that it's useless to have a discussion about the economic impact of individual "pirating" of website content because the discussion costs more than the piracy.
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