On 27/02/07, Sebastian Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not really, why do I need to see a sites ads to evaluate it's content? Because the ads are an intrinsic part of the site's content. That's what the owner of the content has decided comprises the full work, and therefore that's what you have been granted permission to use. Consumer choice in this case is not for you to block the site's adverts and deliver yourself a derivative work, but for you to either consume the content intact or not at all. Seb -- Sebastian Potter Technical Project Manager, BBC Children's Interactive
If something is on a *public* network, there is no obligation on me to waste my bandwidth downloading something that gives me no value; the other day I was browsing the web on my Nintendo DS browser; in order to speed things up it doesn't even have flash capability (interestingly GMail falls back to html only, and they choose not to serve me ads). If I'm using a browser unable to view adverts am I still going against the wishes of the site owner? or would they rather have the hit so that they can charge more for ads on their site? Do you condemn all the users of lynx? http://lynx.browser.org/ as they prefer only html? Or should I be forced to view every tiny quirk of ever script that a site runs? I use firefox, am I being unfair to web admins who like using ActiveX as I can't\don't view any ActiveX scripts, or is that not "an intrinsic part of the site's content"? To be blunt if it's served to *my* PC I have every right to do as I wish with the content; the same as if I buy a book, I don't have to read it all, why is it different for a website? I don't have to read the adverts in magazines or newspapers no one considers those "an intrinsic part of [their] content" why do ads have this special status on the web? It's the same with TV, I change the channel (or make a cup of coffee etc.) during ads (or skip them on my PVR just like I did with VHS tapes) is that also wrong? Are TV ads intrinsic part of a programmes content? If not, why are they so much part of a website's content? Vijay.
