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by PowerBar 1964 days ago
Disclaimer: IANAL

If I run a service, I can add pretty much any requirements (barring anti-discrimination, accessibility laws, depending on your jurisdiction) I want for use of that service.

If I saw you can't use my service unless you do so while wearing a chicken hat and humming God Save the Queen, I have every right to do so and every right to kick you off if I discover you were wearing a turkey hat instead, because it's MY service. I may have a hard time enforcing such requirements, but nobody has a LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE RIGHT to use my service without my permission, no matter how dumb my requirements are to be granted that permission.

Note: The above obviously doesn't automatically apply to existing legally binding contracts such as with a paying customer, though in most cases either party is free to break the contact at any time assuming they are willing to pay the penalty specified in said contract.

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Right, but their policy is that individual users can still get keys for personal use. So given that, how could individual users getting keys for personal use be a violation of their policy?