Re:“American Scientist” Understands Nothing about the Travel...
by chongli on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:25PM
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I'm sorry you got downvoted but I still don't think it should dissuade you from sharing your thoughts. I've been downvoted many times in the past and it's never stopped me.
As an aside, I find your bakery analogy amusing. There's a bakery in my town that I've frequented many times and it is operated on the honour system. There's no cashier in the bakery and the displays don't have any glass in front of them. You're expected to just grab what you want and drop the cash in the cash box. You know what? People do it! The fact that the bakery owners so obviously demonstrate their trust to their customers engenders a lot of goodwill.
As for ad-blocking? To me it's a simple matter of the right to control my browser and which content it downloads and how that content is displayed. If your site is going to put neon green text on a purple background, I'm going to tell my browser to ignore that so I can read in black and white.
If you want to tell your web server to refuse access to those it deems are blocking ads, that's totally fair. Just as I have the right to control my browser, you have the right to control your server.
As for copyright? I think the whole concept of exclusive ownership of content is dubious. Study some historical literature and see how heavily George R R Martin borrowed from Greek tragedy, for example. It's silly to me that we should claim he's the sole creator and the owner of this story. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Everybody is indebted to society for a great many reasons.
As an aside, I find your bakery analogy amusing. There's a bakery in my town that I've frequented many times and it is operated on the honour system. There's no cashier in the bakery and the displays don't have any glass in front of them. You're expected to just grab what you want and drop the cash in the cash box. You know what? People do it! The fact that the bakery owners so obviously demonstrate their trust to their customers engenders a lot of goodwill.
As for ad-blocking? To me it's a simple matter of the right to control my browser and which content it downloads and how that content is displayed. If your site is going to put neon green text on a purple background, I'm going to tell my browser to ignore that so I can read in black and white.
If you want to tell your web server to refuse access to those it deems are blocking ads, that's totally fair. Just as I have the right to control my browser, you have the right to control your server.
As for copyright? I think the whole concept of exclusive ownership of content is dubious. Study some historical literature and see how heavily George R R Martin borrowed from Greek tragedy, for example. It's silly to me that we should claim he's the sole creator and the owner of this story. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Everybody is indebted to society for a great many reasons.