Without asking permission--the audacity part--Thrun offered an online version of the class to anyone in the world.

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All payments (regardless of their amount) can be made in either currency without asking permission from anybody.

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And if you go on a tour that brings tourists in to indigenous tribes, don't walk into someone's home without asking permission.

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Sort of like Morgan Freeman's character, Red, from "The Shawshank Redemption, " who, after being released from prison, famously couldn't "squeeze a drop" without asking permission.

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An online petition has been started asking for unlocking without permission to be made permanently legal.

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