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.
“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.
The plaintiff sees the influence on these data structures by the ad blocker as an unauthorized modification of a computer program
Html isn’t a program or programming language.
The original idiocy here is the DMCA, this and the other idiocies practised in its name are consequences. Over time the idiocies build up as case law precedents until new and ever more egregious cases are made, some of which stick (as in throw shit at the wall and see what sticks) and the cycle continues. Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.
Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.
Or violence, which is justified self-defense when tyrants are trying to destroy everyone’s property rights.
Make no mistake: these companies are trying to subjugate us and turn us into the digital equivalent of serfs, to be exploited without recourse. We should be a lot more pissed off about this than we are!
You can take my ad blockers when you pry them from my cold, dead body.
Fucking fascists.
This has the same energy as shutting your eyes and blocking your ears during a commercial being piracy.
Drink verification can.
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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.
my actual property rights as owner of the machine
Very poor choice of words
Why? Do you think I’m not the one who owns my computer? Do you think computers aren’t property? Defend your position; explain what you mean.
My point is companies would love if you didn’t own your own computer and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some legislation through to let them license it that way.
How is accurately framing their tyrannical feudalistic scheming a poor choice of words on my part?
Then I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
Your ISP already leases your modem.
Not when you use your own modem
I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
Well that’s dystopian as fuck, ads are a legitimate security threat with the amount of malware, scams, and other shady stuff advertisements online frequent contain.
Edit: Not even a day later there’s a report about Google ads straight up serving malware because of fucking course that happened…
It’s dystopian as fuck for an even more fundamental reason: your computer is your property, and propagandists have no right to colonize it!
That goes double for the fact that the copy"right" they’re trying to justify this invasion of control with isn’t actually a right at all, but rather a mere temporary monopoly privilege. They’re literally just borrowing from the Public Domain and think they not only own something, but that it somehow supersedes the actual property rights of everybody else!
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?
