Thread: Touch Remove Ads from the special offers edition?
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Old 12-11-2011, 08:38 AM   #13
r.bares
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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan View Post
Now the product belongs to you and you should be able to do whatever you like with it.
You have every right to do whatever you like with it, within the agreement you accepted. You are licensed to use the device, and (specifically in this case) the software on the device, as regulated by the agreement. If you breach that license, then you have no right to use the software. That is the problem.

From an ethical perspective its really quite obvious why this should be frowned upon, Kobo have provided a discount in exchange for showing advertising on an ongoing basis, not merely to sell the product with advertising in the first instance. If you accept this discount and then remove yourself from their advertising-base, you are harming their bottom line, and in my opinion it is broadly equivalent to theft, the taking of something which is not yours and you have no right to take.

That is not to say that I think people who want to do this are "bad people", but this is certainly not something which should be condoned.
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