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Comment by baumy

4 days ago

This is juvenile nonsense.

I can point directly to the law in whatever jurisdiction you care to name that makes doing what you describe illegal.

You cannot point to anything that makes it illegal to view videos on a publicly accessible website without watching the ads that usually play before them.

This is how I feel about claiming that stealing from YouTube isn’t actually stealing. Juvenile nonsense. That’s why I came up with a nonsense counter argument

  • Negative proof. We've no obligation to prove your point for you.

    You claim we're stealing.

    In Texas, theft is a crime per Sec. 31.03:

    > THEFT. (a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property.

    Please link the law, and jurisdiction, that is broken when I view a YouTube video and don't view the ad.

    https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.31.htm#31....

    Nobody disagrees with you that YouTube wants us to view ads.

    • I don’t give a shit about laws. Common sense and morality are what matter to me and taking without paying will always be stealing according to both. I’m not trying to prove anything to you, other than how juvenile it is to hide behind laws and technicalities I guess.

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