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Originally Posted by yifanlu
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Now, if you are unsure that what you're doing is right or wrong, feel free to argue, but from what I'm seeing, everyone is either on one polar side or the other.
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The only truly important thing here is that we treat others as we wish to be treated (The Golden Rule). Defining the concept of
Right and Wrong is what fuels many Religious Arguments and Political Debates, leading to wars, crusades, witch hunts and Jihads, taking the minds and lives of countless victims.
We are participating in an online information sharing community here, so I should think that this whole concept of OWNING information just feels WRONG to most of us. Just look up "Illegal Numbers", for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
It costs almost nothing to duplicate and share information. Doing something that actually COSTS somebody money, such as hacking 3G so amazon has to pay for your internet bandwidth, is definately stealing. Having the knowledge and ability to do so, especially in an emergency situation, is not wrong. Actually USING that knowledge in a way that hurts amazon is clearly NOT a good thing.
Using a SPAM filter to screen out information that you do not want, is more of a grey area subject to personal choice, as yifanlu said. But that does not give any of us the moral right to try to coerce others into adopting our own personal choices, including whether or not we filter ads. Filtering out advertising is fine to do personally, but publishing methods to encourage others to do it too may hurt amazon financially when advertisers abandon them due to our behavior.
Now, perhaps our overactive population of amateur armchair attorneys could find a forum haunted by IP lawyers, and go there to whine about all those bad hackers with people who welcome their legal opinions on these matters of intellectual "Property"...
But above all else, remember "The Golden Rule", and don't make amazon take away our ability to play with our kindle "eToys".