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> Well if they give it out for free (aka they pay for it), asking you to register is a reasonable ask

They have other options... rate limiting, serving (more) quantized to non-registered etc. etc.



Those options are still not free. And giving a degraded version of your product to free users is a bad way to acquire clients.




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