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It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers. Let's do a realistic thought experiment that's actually
by vitd 10y ago
It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers.
Let's do a realistic thought experiment that's actually fair:
Imagine you have a movie that you love. It's showing tonight on an over-the-air channel that inserts ads throughout it. You decide to record the show and watch it later.
Do you skip the ads?
- hsod 10y ago> It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers. This is why I said a "giant barrel", because serving web pages does have marginal cost to the server owner, and from there you could imagine a situation where your page view does diminish the number of page views left for "paying" customers. I might fast-forward through the ads, but I wouldn't feel good about it or try to defend it philosophically.