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<blockquote data-quote="blackice" data-source="post: 976435" data-attributes="member: 79035">Morally my personal feeling is that it doesn’t have to be illegal. You are taking something without paying for it, which is why there are so many pay walls now. People aren’t going to work for free when the ad revenue dries up. This is why sites have been dropping dead for years. You can use a different term than pirating, but the end result is you consume content without compensating the creator. I really would like some sort of middle ground, but I fear we’ve blown right past it. Ads are terrible and nobody wants to see them, including me. But, I don’t feel I’m owed the fruits of someone else’s labor just because there’s no legally binding contract. That’s just my personal conviction.I started using Ad blockers for the same reason. Some security guru insisted on it. So I got paranoid that the ads were out to get me. The fear mongering for clicks in the security article industry is aggravating, as it’s hard to understand the real risks without any data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blackice, post: 976435, member: 79035"] Morally my personal feeling is that it doesn’t have to be illegal. You are taking something without paying for it, which is why there are so many pay walls now. People aren’t going to work for free when the ad revenue dries up. This is why sites have been dropping dead for years. You can use a different term than pirating, but the end result is you consume content without compensating the creator. I really would like some sort of middle ground, but I fear we’ve blown right past it. Ads are terrible and nobody wants to see them, including me. But, I don’t feel I’m owed the fruits of someone else’s labor just because there’s no legally binding contract. That’s just my personal conviction. I started using Ad blockers for the same reason. Some security guru insisted on it. So I got paranoid that the ads were out to get me. The fear mongering for clicks in the security article industry is aggravating, as it’s hard to understand the real risks without any data. [/QUOTE]

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