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Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft » Mon, May 08, 2023, 7:49 PM UTC

kixiQu wrote: post #39

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the theft? If that website allows him to download the pages without a 401 or a 403, then how is it any of their business how be prefers to consume that content? No theft has occurred. Not even in the half-assed "copyright infringement is theft" meaning that some slack-jawed quarterwits have started to use the last decade or two. It is not harming you to decline to buy something from you, not even if you real…

Do you see no distinction between * downloading and transforming a document for one's own consumption (as with e.g. ad blockers) and * rehosting it with no permission from the writer ?

Not sure what you mean by "rehosting". Just looks like client software to me.

The absence of 401s and 403s indicates tacit permission to me.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by kixiQu » Mon, May 08, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #41

kixiQu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you see no distinction between * downloading and transforming a document for one's own consumption (as with e.g. ad blockers) and * rehosting it with no permission from the writer ?

Not sure what you mean by "rehosting". Just looks like client software to me. The absence of 401s and 403s indicates tacit permission to me.

The images aren't rehosted, but the text is. Arguably even more parasitic given the relative costs involved. (Navigate to e.g. https://readable_techcrunch.mvlab.workers.dev/article/253956... and open the dev tools)

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft » Tue, May 09, 2023, 5:34 AM UTC

kixiQu wrote: post #42

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what you mean by "rehosting". Just looks like client software to me. The absence of 401s and 403s indicates tacit permission to me.

The images aren't rehosted, but the text is. Arguably even more parasitic given the relative costs involved. (Navigate to e.g. https://readable_techcrunch.mvlab.workers.dev/article/253956... and open the dev tools)

Not sure what you mean by "rehosted".

It seems to be a primitive perspective, as if I had transported some 7th century scribe through time to the present day. That man, were he here, could not help but imagine that words had been copied from one codex to another, as if by quill pen. No?

All I see is a different client.