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Legal != moral.


So yes it’s your “moral right” to obtain content without paying for it because you don’t want ads.

Would you feel the same way if a commercial entity violated the GPL?


Is it a "moral right" for companies to use intellectual property laws to force your children to watch ads? Children are legally unable to participate in contracts, should they be allowed to watch any media, with binding licenses and laws, at all?


Then either buy media without ads or limit the amount of time and content your children spend watching ads?


The media producing individual/group/company could do something else with their time/capital that isn't so casually pirateable, such as building housing or producing actual goods/services, instead of the "produce once then sit on your ass and collect royalties forever for the next century and a half" behavior that media production encourages.


Are you spending your time building houses? Are you willing to quit your job and work for Habitat for Humanity?


Yes, I would download a car.


Do you admit it is easy to tsk tsk and say how other people should work. But you won’t make the same sacrifice?




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