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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by djsumdog on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:18AM (#14095243)
This gets onto very shaky ground. What if I'm in a console and only browse with w3m or lynx? What if I simply disable all Images and Javascript (older web browsers made disabling images really simple; back when we had very limited dial-up bandwidth).

Can websites dictate what web browsers you use? Are you violating an agreement by using a different User-Agent?

No, no and no. You are requesting data and your browser renders it. If you write your own browser to request and render the data differently, I don't see any issue with copyright.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by Confusion on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:59AM (#14095410) 

  No, no and no.
You have given no arguments to support these claims. You are just repeating the idea that you can do with those bytes what you want, when I just gave several examples of cases in which you can not do with those bytes what you want.

I'll make it explicit. You can't show a Netflix show to an audience (let alone a paying audience). You may not render an e-book that you haven't bought. You may not even store that sequence bytes on a device you own. You may not decrypt an encrypted file not intended for you.

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