<i>&quot;For me, the entire debate is silly because it&#x27;s my screen -&gt; my decision what appears.&quot;</i><p>My company makes most of its money off of advertising, I am broadly a fan of advertising (done well) myself, and yet.. I agree with your feeling at a core, technical level. I currently don&#x27;t see how it&#x27;s defensible to argue that a piece of software <i>MUST</i> render a certain stream of data in a certain way.<p>This is not about copyright, redistribution (we&#x27;re not transforming then rebroadcasting), or ethics (to me). This is simply about having code on a machine transform an incoming stream to a visual representation, and while common standards and protocols (e.g. JPEG, HTML, CSS, HTTP) determine how to do that to get towards a <i>desired</i> result, I think any individual&#x27;s code or computer should be free to render data as it sees fit even if that rendering is not what the creator intended.<p>Dictating <i>how</i> people or machines must intrepret things is a bad idea, IMHO. Provide the source data in whatever way you want, by all means, but the end user&#x2F;device must interpret them as they will.