Ad Blocking Infringes Copyright? Ancient Sony Cheat Lawsuit May Prove Pivotal
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When the web pages are called up by the web browser, the HTML file is transferred to the RAM on the user’s device. To display the HTML file, the web browser interprets its content, creating additional data structures. The plaintiff sees the influence on these data structures by the ad blocker as an unauthorized modification of a computer program
This has to be the most idiotic thing I read this week.
The plaintiff sees the influence on these data structures by the ad blocker as an unauthorized modification of a computer program
“Wearing eye glasses modifies the text in a copyrighted book”
The curl command is a hacking tool for copyright infringement.
Gotta make curl illegal now. Or why stop there? All Http clients! Nothing could go wrong 😊
How very very dare you to modify the contents of this media to your liking, you horrible soulless excuse for a human being.
How dare you interpret this media with your mind in a way we never intended! Now that your brain has processed our information, it is an asset of Sony corporation. All your brain and its thoughts below to us.
Html isn’t a program or programming language.
You can take my ad blockers when you pry them from my cold, dead body.
Fucking fascists.
Forcing my computer to display ads infringes on my actual property rights as owner of the machine.
It’s beyond the pale that we’re even contemplating letting Imaginary Property “rights” (read: temporary privileges) trump actual property rights, let alone actually doing it.
Just because you send me malware after some text I wanted to read (in http response), don’t give you rights to force me to execute the malware.
Just because I have your book (or page) and look at part of it doesn’t give you the right to force me to read it in full or dictate how I’m reading it.
I have every right to reveal/read only part of the book/page. We didn’t sign any agreement, if you want me to first look at the part you want to or agree to some license nothing stopping you to do, stuff like paywall or subscription exists…
One would think that this is very thin ice for a counter suit, in that how may advertising houses have looked at the source of adblockers to work around them?
