Re: Delivering on talk

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 21:48:00 -0800

vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> Even if the applet takes almost no cycles, those issues remain. It's
> one thing to run a Java or other program in a browser to support
> whatever the user asked. It's another thing to run a program on someone
> else's computer without the informed consent of the computer's owner.
> That other thing is called various kinds of "theft."
>
> Motives for theft of service are irrelevant to whether the act
> amounts to stealing. Whether CPU cycles might be wasted compared to
> your use of them is also irrelevant.

By that logic, every website with animated Flash ads that you didn't
ask to see is also engaging in theft. That means practically every
commercial news site.

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