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> "Does the article say that changing your ip is wrong"

No.

The article says that circumventing a measure which you know was put in place to keep you out (in this case, an IP ban which followed a C&D letter) means you are intentionally committing "unauthorized access". Changing IPs just happened to be the method used to gain said unauthorized access.

If you tell me I'm banned from your store, and then I shave my beard and change my shirt specifically so you won't recognize me when I sneak back in, that would likewise be "unauthorized access". This doesn't mean shaving and changing my shirt is wrong, just that doing it for the purpose of accessing something the owners have told me not to access is illegal.



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