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0 pointsjocoda7y ago0 comments

Had to do a double take here. Not sure that this, as a blanket statement can be correct. How can anyone not be entitled to connect to any public IP address? And how, and who, would be able to enforce that?

A server can put various measures in place to limit general access, but then by those measures the IP is no longer public. T&Cs that a site may wish to enforce can only be made available after the connection has already been established.

Also, robots.txt is a standard that we agree to respect but it is not something that legally binding.

So have to disagree.

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avip7y ago

The IP is public in the sense that a pub's door is public. You're welcome to open it. The bouncer may throw you out without explanations (maybe you wore a hoodie, idk). You walk in under terms. You don't have some birthright to lurk there and harass the customers.

erulabs7y ago

Exactly, though in the case of TCP/IP you can just -lock- the door entirely for certain (people|addresses) - no need for violence!

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