Kasz216 said:
Torillian said:
No you can't, you pay for it the amount that's asked or you don't get it. Anything other than that is stealing. You can't barter for things without the other person's involvement.
What you're saying is that you've concluded that the bulk of the content you use on the internet should be free and therefore you feel right in using it for free, but that's not how you're supposed to vote with your dollars. The creator decides what they think is a fair price and then you can either have the thing for the price the manufacturer is asking of you or you can choose not to pay that and not have it. Eventually the market will then fluctuate to a point that the bulk of consumers find the price reasonable. Deciding that something should be free and taking that into your own hands is simply stealing.
Those in favor of things like adblock liken it to changing channels from commercials on your TV, but I think it's more accurately compared using a cable splitter on your neighbor's cable.
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That said, this situation is different in that, it's VERY easy for the creators to block people using adblock software.
They don't however, because they know that views are valuable even by poeople who use adblock.
Store owners in this case are deliberitly letting apples go because it's good for buisness. Just not as good as they want.
In this way, peoples views are just as much a commodity as the content people create.
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Though I kind of feel like that the reason for this comes full circle if the site's only source of revenue are from ads. Higher numbers look better and those that provide the ad revenue find those numbers more appealing. But that is, of course, an oversimplification of the process. A lot more goes into this, and adblock isn't evil. However, the attitude that goes with it (I think) is, metaphorically speaking.
