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Ethics of Bypassing Paywalls on News
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<blockquote data-quote="Hazelelponi" data-source="post: 77644001" data-attributes="member: 410853"><p>I absolutely agree with your premise here. If someone is doing a job, such as journalism, and they are making their living off it then paying for it is the same as buying the newspaper - which everyone used to do.</p><p></p><p>Now instead of paper news, it's digital news and there's no more paper boy riding his bike down the street...</p><p></p><p>But it's still news, and people are still making their living bringing the information to people in order to keep them informed about important events of our day.</p><p></p><p>So not paying for it is theft, the same as if you picked up a newspaper and walked out of the store without paying for it.</p><p></p><p>Thou shalt not steal is the Bible verse to support the premise.</p><p></p><p>There's some sites that are behind paywall that I absolutely will not read from because I will not financially support that kind of nonsense, however, because I feel that way I also don't care what they have to say about literally anything. So I'm good never reading them. Ever. I won't steal their content because I care less than nothing about it.</p><p></p><p>If it's not worth buying it's not worth stealing in my mind. But I might be weird. Lol...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hazelelponi, post: 77644001, member: 410853"] I absolutely agree with your premise here. If someone is doing a job, such as journalism, and they are making their living off it then paying for it is the same as buying the newspaper - which everyone used to do. Now instead of paper news, it's digital news and there's no more paper boy riding his bike down the street... But it's still news, and people are still making their living bringing the information to people in order to keep them informed about important events of our day. So not paying for it is theft, the same as if you picked up a newspaper and walked out of the store without paying for it. Thou shalt not steal is the Bible verse to support the premise. There's some sites that are behind paywall that I absolutely will not read from because I will not financially support that kind of nonsense, however, because I feel that way I also don't care what they have to say about literally anything. So I'm good never reading them. Ever. I won't steal their content because I care less than nothing about it. If it's not worth buying it's not worth stealing in my mind. But I might be weird. Lol... [/QUOTE]
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