[userbinator]

The idiotic "stealing" argument again? At least use "piracy" if you want to be correct...

The moment you openly publish information on the Internet, you have already given consent. There are other solutions to bandwidth usage.

User-agent discrimination should be illegal. All it does is further the control that Big Tech has, and help authoritarian governments with their control too.

[pdpi]

As with anything IP-related, the data is licensed under whatever terms you choose to impose. That’s the extent of the consent you’ve provided.

[Asraelite]

Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.

[NetMageSCW]

Reading is using.

[Asraelite]

No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.

[matheusmoreira]

> User-agent discrimination should be illegal.

Couldn't agree more. Nonsense like remote attestation too. If this discrimination persists, it will lead to the destruction of what little computing freedom we still have.