doing an HTTP GET to your server is my request to access some content your server serves. that's my right as a client. and it is your server's responsibility to determine whether or not to respond to my request. that's your server's right. said another way, "access" is the responsibility of the server, not the client.

Technical pedantry aside, that's what I mean. And I choose to not respond to your request with my content if I don't think your client is acting in good faith -- ie. is a bot or crawler that disrespects robots.txt, for example.