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It’s actually not easy for them to take more drastic measures, and they’re actively working on enforcing it.

The part where the content creator doesn’t get paid and is supposed to according to the rules of the platform that you’re violating is the part where it’s piracy.

Of course it does, the part where the content creator doesn’t get paid and is supposed to according to the rules of the platform is the part where it’s piracy.

The part where the content creator doesn’t get paid and is supposed to according to the rules of the platform is the part where it’s piracy.

If they could they would do that, they just can’t stop you.

They’re trying desperately these days, it’s just a hard problem.

No, i’m explicitly not, those aren’t tracked and nobody gets paid based on whether or not you fastforward. That makes it not piracy. The content creator gets paid.

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…except that’s violating youtubes terms of service, and skipping paying the content creators.

Which makes it for all intents and purposes piracy.

You’re not violating their terms of service by doing that.

So what if it has to be split into degrees? The world is a complex place and wishing it was simple doesn’t make it so.

There’s no external program, it’s just an extension on my browser

That’s… external software. But even if it wasn’t, it’s still circumventing the youtube terms of service with software.

You’re breaking the terms of service of youtube by doing this… that makes it piracy…

No because the content creator got paid for the ad.

If it’s funded by live ads and the ads fund the creators, then skipping the ads means skipping your payment.

It’s not legally piracy, but it’s the same spirit and the effects are indistinguishable on the creators.

I don’t see how your example is even vaguely similar to mine, and the fact that you used that as an example means you don’t understand my argument.

…So, you skip the ads using an external program, which prevents the youtube channel you’re watching from getting their money.

That’s the part that makes it piracy. Of course you have the right to do this, I have no ethical problem with it, i’m doing it now, but you have to understand that when you’re doing this you’re preventing the youtube channels you’re watching from getting paid, you’re taking their content without paying them what they asked for in return.

If the youtube channel disables the ads themselves, that’s one thing, but you not watching those ads is not what the youtube channels want… because that’s how they get paid. Getting free content without paying the content maker is… piracy.

That’s not the same because the advertisement company has already paid the content creator.

No, the ads on the DVD you bought have already paid the company that made the DVD.

You skipping those ads has no consequences for anyone, and nobody cares if you skip them.

He’s right that it’s piracy, he doesn’t go on to say piracy is wrong, and neither would I.

It’s piracy to block ads, and piracy isn’t always wrong, so who cares?

Not for me

I just wish it supported tabs, I’d switch immediately if it did

He just has a bad case of revitiligo it’s not his fault